Depression Getaway

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Don’t you just love the way children laugh? They hold nothing back. They are so free! FREE is not a word we associate with depression, but if you decide to add laughter to your medicine chest, then for a moment or two, you can be as free as this child. Read the rest of this entry »

Oh this is such fun. Just talking about laughter makes me feel better, at least while I am doing it.

If you haven’t laughed yet today, you better go here first to the American’s Funniest Home Videos site and watch for awhile.

Now for a little scientific talk on why laughing is so medicinal. Here are a few pieces of information which I gleaned from an article on Naturalnews. The article is based on a book ‘The Five Habits of Health Transformation’ by Mike Adams. Read the rest of this entry »

Bet you didn’t know horses can laugh, did you? Okay, so I think we probably all agree that it is fun to laugh. Laughing is universal.

But maybe if you are reading this and you are one of the many who suffer from depression, you are wondering if laughing isn’t a little pointless. I mean, what difference is it really going to make in the long run? Read the rest of this entry »

The secret’s out! Laughter is depression’s secret weapon which you have already discovered if you ready yesterday’s post.

You may as well get started benefitting from this wonderful free weapon. Go ahead and laugh! If you need a little assistance, maybe you would like to look at a couple of these silly YouTube sites and see if you can resist laughing.

Bill Cosby said: “Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.” Do you agree with Bill Cosby? Read the rest of this entry »

To finish up my series about favorite getaways, I re-posting my very first series for this blog, about not only my favorite getaway, but my favorite thing ever – LAUGHTER!

Can you imagine that there is something you have been doing all of your life, that you could do right now if you wanted to and it would give you a much needed break from your depression? What is it? Laughing! That’s right – laughter is depression’s secret weapon.

What makes you laugh? Who do you laugh most with? Who makes you laugh by just thinking about them?

Thinking about the Smothers Brothers or Tim Conway gets me started laughing right away. In case you are a lot younger than me, they were the Jerry Seinfeld and Ray Romano of my day.

The person I laugh the most with is my sister. We have been laughing together for over 60 years! I don’t think anyone else finds us that funny but we are each other’s best audience. We can laugh at the stupidest things or at nothing at all. Do you have someone like that? Read the rest of this entry »

It is ‘Whimsical Wednesday’ where I chat about something light and airy and unimportant!

I love some of the names that people choose for their businesses. This week on one of my various walks around various small towns I found two interesting seamstresses with a sense of humour. One called her business “Seams Fitting” and the other “Sew What!” I do get a kick out those sorts of things. Read the rest of this entry »

Everyone loves laughing, even babies. I have written a lot about laughter already in a five part series “Depression’s Secret Weapon”. I encourage you to read that sometime.

Today I was reminded once again how much laughter can make a difference, and not just for the moment we are laughing. We just had some new friends for lunch after church and she especially loved to laugh. We shared some good stories and since they are new friends, they hadn’t heard our stories before and we hadn’t heard theirs. It was fun and we laughed a lot! What great therapy! Read the rest of this entry »

WHEN HARRY MET SALLY

Did you see it? The movie? When it came out it was just another romantic comedy but over the years it has raised up quite a following. There are some memorable scenes (the restaurant orgasm) and delightful lines.

It is about a couple who meet one another when they are both involved with someone else. As college students they take a car trip across country together merely for financial convenience and get to know each other quite well and say goodbye, thinking nothing of their relationship. They bump into each other over the years and finally ten years later, when they are both going through a break-up they become good friends – the most unlikely good friends since they are so different. Read the rest of this entry »

Emoting! Now there is something we are good at. Depression is an illness of heightened emotions, mostly negative emotions unfortunately. But if I was going to give us an “A” on anything, it would be emoting!

Can you identify? What are some of your strongest emotions when you are depressed? Anger? Sadness? Guilt? Self-pity? Worry? I could go on and on.

Why emoting becomes such a habit that even when we are not depressed sometimes we emote too much for our own good or for anyone else’s good.

I have often wondered, what comes first? Do the negative emotions lead to depression or does depression lead to negative emotions? Does it even matter? Read the rest of this entry »

Are you ready yet? Because if you still need a couple of ideas, I kind of had some fun in our local bookstore and found some things that you may want to add to your list, especially if you are a Canadian! Read the rest of this entry »