"Frankly ,it's not funny...Stop that!"
I am sure each and every one of you have had a case of the laughing fits at the most inappropriate time but this is different.What we talk about is inappropriate laughing, joking, and punning: and, then, less talkative,the situation that every normal person wont laugh at all.Yes As the old saying goes, "laughter is the best medicine."Laughter, along with an active sense of humor, may help protect you against a heart attack,and other disease .A recent study by cardiologists at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. The study, which is the first to indicate that laughter may help prevent heart disease.However, did you know INSANELY inappropriate laughing and crying is abnormal?
Taken from the movie scene " Evil Dead 4."Inappropriate laughter is often viewed as a form of emotional dysregulation. "Emotional dysregulation (ED) is a term used in the mental health community to refer to an emotional response that is poorly modulated, and does not fall within the conventionally accepted range of emotive response."(wikitopia quote)
Our outer emotional expressions should be directly related to our inner mood and/or our thoughts.If we talk about something funny, we should be smiling and even laughing. If we talk about something sad, our facial expression should be sad.
When we have emotional expressions that are unrelated to the situation, conversation, or mood at the time, our emotions are poorly regulated and controlled.
Mental Health professionals have proposed a diagnosis of “Involuntary Emotional Expression Disorder” (IEED) for this condition. In short, smiling for no reason is unusual…but what might cause it?
* We often encounter this situation as a form of anxious or nervous laughter. Normally shy and introverted folks who find themselves the center of conversational attention often become “giddy” with nervous laughter. It’s like their emotions are overloaded. This should not happen every time, however, and would not appear in brief conversations.
* Neurological disorders can produce this condition. When there is a history of cerebral vascular accident (stroke), especially in the frontal lobes of the brain, this can develop. Many neurological conditions that create structural damage to the brain can produce inappropriate laughter as an exterior symptom. Certain types of brain injury create an “organic smile” — a smile that never goes away and is present when the individual is resting. In rare cases, it can be a form of seizure disorder.
* Inappropriate laughter that follows a phrase or sentence can be a sign of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) or even Tourette's Disorder — as a type of vocal tic.
* Lastly, this type of inappropriate laughter can be related to psychiatric disorders that have Hypomania (a lesser state of Mania) as a symptom. If this is the case, the individual will be too happy most of the time and will also be loud, hyperactive, attention-seeking, and overly energetic. If the laughter is the only symptom — this is unlikely.
This type of laughter can be treated depending upon the type of disorder. Again, the problem isn’t laughing — it’s a dysregulation of the emotional expression and response system, which is no laughing matter.
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