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When we say something is "hysterical" we usually mean that's a good thing. But sometimes, I think laughter can lead to hysteria in the sense of a loss of control. At least I think thats what happened to me last night. I was talking with my girlfriend Kylie, and I started laughing, until I was in pain, having trouble breathing, and yet being unable to stop. I'm not sure what that means.
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They're coming to take me away, haha heehee ho ho!
I wouldn't worry, it just means your crazy. By which I mean human. We're not always in control. I've lost it like that laughing with no permanent harm, just a bit oxygen starved and sore around the middle (Then again I'm probably not a very reassuring example...). And it probably does come from some place darker and scarier than normal laughter, but for whatever reason it needed to come out. Least you weren't at a funeral or something, the kind of places where that usually hits me.
There's a one-panel newspaper comic I saw years ago by a fellow named Joe Martin that I'll never forget. Mr. Boffo, his clothes in tatters, is standing with his dog on a desert island just big enough to hold them and one sorry looking palm tree. He muses: "Someday, Weederman, we'll look back on all this and laugh. True, it'll probably be one of those deep, eerie ones that slowly builds to a blood-curdling maniacal scream, but still it will be a laugh..."
Hmmmmmm, that might make a good signature quote.
~~hugs, Veronica
"Government will only recognize 2 genders, male + female,
as assigned at birth-" (In his own words:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1lugbpMKDU
If you ask me,
it means that your girlfriend Kylie is quite amusing. =)
Laughter is also a way that
Laughter is also a way that we release pent up stress. People can feel much better after a good cry because it releases certain chemicals in the body. So too with laughing. I think that laughter does releases grief just as much or more than crying. Whenever we release the old it hurts because we are letting part of ourselves (even if we no longer need it, it was part of us) go.
This is painful, like losing someone who was once our friend; hence the pain of 'laughing hysterically'.