The following clip is of a Laugh Therapy exercise from the Mental Health Humor Project "Finding The Funny Bone" presentation done by Chato B. Stewart.
"My pepped up thriller attitude helped really made it fun. The workshop was to show how humor and laughter can be used as a positive coping skill. This is the Laugh Out Loud exercise and we all had fun doing it."
- Chato B. Stewart
You can visit Chato's Blog, Mental Health Humor and Cartoons HERE. He offers Positive Mental Illness humor and Cartoons. Check it out.
A lot of the recent news has included stories about rising gas prices, increased energy costs, home foreclosures, falling stock prices, failing banks, and the list goes on, and on, and on.
For many months, people were afraid to use the "R" word, recession, but I think most "normal" people, meaning not a member of the wealthy, or ruling class, believe that the U.S. is now in a recession.
If our economy gets much worse, we may be headed for a DEPRESSION. I don't think that is going to happen, but it makes me wonder. If the U.S. were to experience another depression, would everyone technically be diagnosed with depression? Would our health care system have the capacity to provide all of the therapy sessions we would need to treat our depression. Would depression continue to be a disorder if everyone had it? Would the pharmaceutical company's have enough Prozac for everyone. If not, I could probably make my own Prozac in my bathtub, sell it on the streets, and make a fortune. So, a depression might be a good thing for me. But what if I was the only one who was not depressed?
Any way, the recent bombardment of bad financial and economic news made remember an episode of The Office I once watched, in which the main character Michael Scott, was having financial difficulties and was advised that he may have to "Declare Bankruptcy" by an office accountant. Michael didn't quite understand what his advisor meant. Take a look at the clip below. Hope it takes your mind off any financial stress you have and makes you smile.
Please don't take any advice from me or this blog without consulting a professional, but I can't stop you from "Declaring Bankruptcy" like Michael Scott.
I think Dr. Phil is full of shit, but I know that he is very popular and that a lot of people follow his advice (with blind abandonment of reality).
Any way, a friend of mine loves Dr. Phil and watches his show every day. He is guru like to her.
This morning, I received the following email from her.
Subject: inner peace
I am passing this on to you because it definitely works, and we could all use a little more calmness in our lives. By following simple advice heard on the Dr. Phil show, you too can find inner peace. Dr Phil proclaimed, 'The way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you have started and have never finished.'
So I looked around my house to find all the things I started and hadn't finished, and before leaving the house this morning, I finished a bottle of White Zinfandel, a bottle of Bailey's Irish Cream, a package of Oreos, the remainder of my old Prozac prescription, the rest of the cheesecake, some Doritos, and a box of chocolates. You have no idea how freaking good I feel right now. Pass this on to those whom you think might be in need of inner peace.
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