Being hilarious doesn't make you immune to depression.
This ‘high functioning’ depression is often easy to missThere are, but ‘laughing on the outside and dying on the inside’ hasn’t made it to the list yet.
A lot of the funniest people we know are often depressed. Humour and laughter can often come from a place of darkness, and comedy is the resulting wall put up between the ‘performer’ and their audience; if someone’s always cracking out jokes and making us all laugh, then they must live a smiling and hilarious life too, right? Not so much.The link between humour and depression is well documented, and was spoken about at length when comedian Robin Williams took his own life in 2014.
Robin Williams perfectly summed up the relationship between mental illness and comedy, saying: ‘I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.’that experiencing low moods increases our capacity for empathy when we see others going through pain.
Personally having previously been in a very dark place for a few years, I find myself going out of my way to make sure people are being looked after and are having a good time, because having a bad time is, well, the worst.a stigma around mental health, and even the most outspoken about mental illnesses might struggle or have struggled to tell people what they’re going through.
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