A new review demonstrates the overall positive impact of humor therapy on depression and anxiety, which may help inform future research, policy, and practice. Humor, a nonpharmacologic intervention ...

People's experiences of humor vary, and humor serves many different functions in our daily lives. Sometime we use humor as a coping mechanism when things are not going well, and other times we enjoy a ...

An analysis of published studies suggests that humor therapy may lessen symptoms of depression and anxiety. For the analysis, which is published in Brain and Behavior, investigators identified 29 ...

I learned to be funny because my mother was chronically depressed. From infancy onward — through a mixture of survival instinct, emotional alchemy, and a craving for approval — my role was to ...

Though John Moe's podcast, 'The Hilarious World of Depression' centers on mental illness, the conversations are funny. Humor "can bust me out" of... Humorist Lightens Depression's Darkness By Talking ...

Writer Abby Heugel explores the often overlooked form of depression where everything on the outside looks normal: you go to ...

“The secret source of humor itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.” That sentiment, offered by no less an authority on humor than Mark Twain, is just one of many that link the ...