Diseases
Hello, dear friends!
Laughter not only prolongs life, but also improves its quality. Thanks to it, a person is able to reduce anxiety, symptoms of stress and even depression. But what if laughter becomes a cause of discomfort?
Have you ever laughed under inappropriate circumstances? What to do if a fit of uncontrollable joy caught you while submitting a report or in the clinic? When meeting an important person or even at a funeral?
In today's article I would like to tell you how to properly cope with an avalanche of laughter that has fallen on your head? What should you do to quickly calm down and what are the reasons for this “strange” behavior?
Having a fit of laughter at an awkward moment is another challenge! The person is flooded so much that it is difficult for him to breathe! Tears are rolling down like hail, and people around are twirling their fingers at their temples, wondering if everything is okay?
Doctors of psychological sciences say that laughter, like any other human emotion, cannot go away immediately! It may take anywhere from 15 minutes to several hours to completely calm down!
Sometimes, a funny reaction occurs as a protective function of an individual to a difficult life situation. But the most important thing that needs to be done is to learn to control emotions so that they cannot take over the mind.
It is worth noting that sudden, voluntary laughter may indicate serious disorders in the mental state and be a symptom of diseases such as Tourette's syndrome, pre-stroke condition, brain tumor, etc.
Theoretically, it is very difficult to identify a connection between the disease and causeless laughter. Usually people burst into joy when they feel good. They are happy and carefree, what's the problem? And at the same time, healers have identified several reasons that can be provocateurs for outbreaks of an attack.
Causes
There are 4 main causes of an attack of uncontrollable laughter:
- pathological effect of cognitive impairment in the body (Alzheimer's disease, tumor, head injury, damage to the nervous system);
- disorder of regulation of emotional background (dementia: neurosis, depression, psychosis, apathy, etc.);
- defensive reaction of the psyche to a stimulus (complexes, emotional barriers, blocks and clamps);
- chemicals (medicines, addiction to poisons - tobacco, drugs, alcohol).
A nervous disorder can cause episodic bursts of uncontrollable crying or laughter, repeated several times a day. Sometimes these reactions occur in response to bad news, the novelty of an event, or surprise.
The human brain is the control room for the entire nervous system. Its job is to send clear control signals over uncontrollable actions such as systematic breathing or heartbeat.
By the way, by developing awareness and practicing breathing exercises and meditation, it is possible to train and control them! In any case, yogis do it quite well! It is also involved in the tight control of voluntary obligations: walking, thinking, concentrating, crying, laughing, ...
When the quality of communication is disrupted, a functional imbalance is observed and the individual demonstrates a fit of hysterical laughter, which scares not only themselves, but also those around them. How to deal with the situation?
Dima Pechkin - psychologist
Hysterical laughter
Any influence on the environment that the body carries out is a method of manipulation to extract certain benefits. In turn, any intense impact of the environment (which includes other people), be it pain or a directed communicative maneuver, is aggression, or creates an extreme situation that can be perceived as aggression.
Laughter during painful sensations is a means of care, a desire to hide feelings. In this case, there is always in a person someone who feels physical pain and someone who forces him to react in a different, unnatural way.
For example, he might see someone laughing in response to pain and try to react in the same way when he himself was in pain, but at the moment he tried this behavior and way of reacting, some external figure, such as a parent, could slow down this reaction, causing internal inhibition. For example, she shamed or scolded her for it.
Or, he could have been scolded or shamed when he cried in pain or expressed aggression, and then he chose a different reaction that could express his excitement, but would be adequate to the environment that was inhibiting him.
In short, an impulse is formed in the child’s psyche that causes laughter as a defense against the external situation and at the same time another, inhibitory impulse that restrains the first. The energy is, as it were, distributed between these two impulses and gives rise to a looped state - the primary impulse cannot be fully realized and therefore the reaction becomes uncontrollable and is played out again.
In short, it is necessary to strengthen its response and weaken its deterrence. During the process, it is good to ask him what he wants to do now and if an answer is received, offer to do it.
It is quite possible that with your help he will be able to come to catharsis and completion, which can be expressed in an angry cry or hysteria. I would suggest that this laughter should develop into something else, more natural and aggressive. Maybe I would even suggest “shout out that laugh” or turn the laughter into a scream.
Fighting an attack
Autotraining
If you literally feel the urge to burst into laughter, then I recommend that you resort to auto-training. What it is? This is the right mindset to help your brain get a grip on reality. These are powerful affirmations and suggestions that increase the feeling of control over the situation, helping to avoid a panic attack during an attack.
Close your eyes and confidently repeat phrases to yourself, avoiding the “not” part: “I am holding back my laughter,” “My emotions are under complete control,” “I am safe.”
Try to abstract yourself from what is happening, focusing on your breathing and reducing its frequency; you can take a deep breath and exhale slowly at least 5 times. Drink cold water or take a walk.
Don't look at people's faces
If an attack was noticed in a child at the most inopportune moment, then he should be switched from visual communication with an adult or peers as soon as possible. Laughter can be extremely contagious, especially in children!
This is similar to the condition when yawning, collective crying in babies, etc. Children have a stronger connection with the Force and energy information fields. And, as a result, they more easily accept the emotional background that surrounds them.
If you already hear chuckles nearby that support the situation, then beware of looking at faces, because then it will be even more difficult to stop, both for you and for people.
Muscle activity
In the fight against uncontrollable laughter, it is important to understand how to switch the brain? I recommend that you resort to muscular distraction.
For example, if you are frozen in anticipation of a seizure when called to the carpet to the boss, then try to find and cling to another idea, the opposite of the present one.
Pain
If nothing helps and attempts fail, this means that you are a person with increased emotionality. What to do in this case? No matter how strange it may be, pain is the strongest human feeling. In order to quickly relieve the symptoms of a seizure in the form of abdominal muscle tension, smiling and even tics, I advise you to hurt yourself.
Pinch your finger, bite the tip of your tongue, prick your leg with a paper clip, etc., the main thing is to hit the nerve endings, and they won’t keep you waiting quickly.
A couple of seconds and you are completely fine, cheerful and can calmly look at what is happening without a smile. At the same time, I am not encouraging you to get carried away with this point and use it only when absolutely necessary.
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“Laughter, like any other emotion, does not stop immediately and does not disappear without a trace. For complete emotional self-soothing, it takes from 10–15 minutes to several hours,” explains the reason for your prolonged hysteria at a recent meeting of shareholders, Doctor of Psychology, Professor of the Faculty of Psychology of VSGU Alexander Tikhonov. But it's not all bad: managing emotions is a skill that can be mastered.
Hysterical laughter
And my cheekbones immediately cramp up so I can’t laugh for a long time
This is also an attack like this, you want to laugh, but your cheekbones are cramping??
No, I start laughing, my cheekbones tighten, I get scared out of my wits and become hysterical like never before.
PS This is not advice
[quote]Message from Lissy
PS This is not advice [/quote
oh, what a mess. I don't even know which is better.
You know, I started laughing so often out of nowhere. Just hysterical, somehow alien and very long-lasting. I just can’t control myself and stop. I’m afraid, I’m losing my composure. Mch is also worried, he’s afraid that someday (pah-pah) I’ll have a short circuit in my head and that’s all. On the one hand, I find this feeling cool, like a release, but in the subway the attack started, people are looking askance, and I laugh and laugh and I have no strength anymore, at these moments you become so physically weak. Everything would be fine, often and abnormally, out of nowhere. But what should we do?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytabout
— The young man laughed a short, hysterical laugh, which died down as suddenly as it began.
The situation was so surreal that she bit her lip to keep from bursting into loud, hysterical laughter.
(as well as words and expressions that are similar in meaning)
Hello! My name is Lampobot, I am a computer program that helps you make Word Maps. I can count perfectly, but I still don’t understand very well how your world works. Help me figure it out!
Thank you! I'm starting to understand people better.
I already realized that the Vietnamese has a relationship with people. More precisely:
- subject: occupation, beliefs, family ties, ethnicity, rank or title (hunter, doctor, Christian, aunt, Frenchman, president);
- characteristics of a person (volunteer, beauty, leader, brunette);
- anatomy (arm, stomach)?
I took everything literally, took a liter mug out of the closet and poured it full.
Wikipedia describes cases of death from laughter, her seizure was similar to this case - “Death from laughter is attributed to the Italian Renaissance writer Pietro Aretino: according to legend, he died of suffocation caused by an explosion of laughter” really resembles suffocation. In general, you need to be careful when joking with girls.
