Laughing your depression and anxiety away

[Laughingsoul]

I'm looking to form an online support group to help people find laughter and even joy in the midst of depression and anxiety--actually--especially in those states.

In spite of my tendency to anxiety and depression, I seem to be able to find and facilitate humor in all of that and that's a big help!

Think of anxiety and fear like the wicked witch in "The Wizard of Oz"...when you can throw some laugher on her, you can hear her say, "I'm melting, I'm melting...."

Let me know if and when you could use some laughter and let's find a time to meet on Zoom.

Since I'm new to this site, (but have used Zoom a lot) I don't know how to arrange this gathering, so if you would like to help make this happen, please reach out to me.

Let's see if we can melt some anxiety and depression together.

I hope we can meet soon.

Laughingsoul

[jleechis1]

great idea. I’ll join.

[Lve2dance]

Sounds good to me too. I have zoom. Still figuring it out 🙃

[roses4all]

I used to have a job where I set up zoom meetings. You create a recurring meeting then email everyone the link. Once you have it set up, anyone with the link can go anytime. I believe there is time limit for a free account. (maybe one hour... I don't remember)

[Goldilocks11]

That is such a great idea, Laughingsoul. I used to have a wonderful sense of humour but am struggling to regain it, sadly.As someone once said, laughter is the best medicine. I've participated in a couple of zoom meetings but wasn't the one to set it all up. I was thinking of good topics we could discuss, eg, the funniest thing that happened to you in school, college university, during a holiday, on a train/bus/plane etc

Although I realise how hard it is to access good memories when your brain seems to be going haywire ir feels like it's shutting down.