Joking about credit crunch

In this time of global crisis, we need to know how to balance everything. We need to still laugh and smile in the midst of crisis. As what the song says, ” we need to laugh out with our problems.” One way of making other people smile and laugh is to throw jokes.

Jokes can have a psychological benefit for those who tell them.

“By joking, you use a mental process, so you feel you’ve done something about the situation,” says Dr Lowis, who says there is a genuine need to make jokes about bad situations, even disasters.
According to the theory of a “just world”, he says, we need to believe, at a subconscious level, that the world is basically an ordered place.
But if something happens to challenge that belief “we cope with humour, by joking about what is interfering with that basic belief”.

Doctors have long suggested that humour offers tangible health benefits. Perhaps the governments’ plans to rescue the sinking banks should include provisions for humour therapy classes for all concerned? Only joking.

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