Am i crazy for laughing?

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Ok so i feel that i need to give you some background on my situation here, it all started 7 months ago, i had just got up form bed on one of my days off from work when i noticed my mother was standing in the kitchen playing cards, i didn't think anything of this as she often would play a game of solitaire most morning so i said good morning to her, she did not respond, i again said good morning to her but again no response, i tried this several times until i realised that there was a problem, she was standing there motionless and could not answer me i knew from previous experiences that she as having a seizure so i quickly took to the phone and called 999, she collapsed on the floor and proceed to have a 20 minute seizure (the paramedics arrived 10 minutes after i called them and they were very good) she then spent several months in the hospital with memory problems (she has had memory problems for many many years but this seizure only made it worse) anyway long story short she is now in a residential home, i have cried about this many times and was even severely depressed for the longest time, but recently all of this has caught up to me and last night, for some reason i broke out into uncontrollable laughter, i feel really bad for doing this but i couldn't help myself, has all of this trauma caught up with me? any help is very much appreciated.

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  • CountessDouche
    8 years ago

    It's ok. It's a weird way of coping with things. I do it all the time. It's just sort of an inappropriate emotional response. My grandmother suffers from dementia, and I did her care taking for a while. I went home in tears all the time until I started laughing at the crazy shit she did. It was my only way to cope.

    To be fair, she does say some funny stuff.

    "Mexicans are trying to steal my good silverware"

    Que car commercial where they say they've sold 50 million cars: "50 million dollars is too much to pay for a car!! The kids these days! They just throw away the money! Polar bears are dying!!"

    Que cubs vs white sox: "the cubbies!!! THE CUBBIES! What kind of name is that! They're grown men! Grown men! They sound like children!"

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  • dindu_nuffin
    8 years ago

    My guess would be that the laughter was some kind of gut level emotional release, not that you find it funny that she has suffered. I think its probably nornal, although complicated

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  • flyingnostalgia
    8 years ago

    You have finally lost it man...but you tried your best. You should be proud of yourself.

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