anybody get an attack of the giggles?

[shrinknightmare]

Just wondering if anyone ever gets the giggles whilst being counselled?

Maybe due to nerves I think.

[Jenny]

Nah i haven't had a fit of giggles. Did you talk about it with your psych afterwards?

I know i've made my therapist laugh a few times and those times have been wonderful in themselves - you know like when a small child smiles and the adult smiles back? I can't quite describe it but one time will always stick in my mind :)

[Daisychain]

Just wondering if anyone ever gets the giggles whilst being counselled?

Maybe due to nerves I think.

I have a few times lol!! It was really awkward because I couldn't control myself.It was due to being nervous,so she understood. I think it also breaks the ice,so i don't mind it :)

[Katmandu40]

I've never had that happen to me I have to say. But, there was one time when I was in serious trouble..bad enough that my shrink wanted me to go to the hospital...I was in her car and she was trying to talk me into going to hosp, when her car stalled.............she ran out of gas!! I burst into hysterical laughter. Instead of her rescuing me, I had to rescue her by taking her to a gas station. Needless to say, I didn't go into hosp!

[shrinknightmare]

My husband sent the shrink a fax about something I had done, to do with making an attempt on my life. When she asked me about it, I just started laughing. :massbounce: Then I told her that it wasn't funny and continued to laugh some more :massbounce: She was not laughing.

The last time I saw her she was going on leave for about 4 weeks. She says to me is there anything else I want to know or ask, I said no, and had a little smile on my face. (I must learn to do poker face). She says whats that smile. I said "Oh nothing that you need to know". Then she asked about self harming, I then admitted to it.

I do have her laughing a lot during counselling. Once she had to put her note pad down and stopped writing as she couldn't contain herself any longer. She put her head down and laughed and laughed. Then she apologised and went on writing as if nothing had happened.

The reason she was laughing so much was that she asked me if I was going to have another baby (my daughter died nearly 2 years ago), I told her no, because I didn't want it to pick up my husband's defects (he has a birth mark on his lip, and a pidgeon chest, bad eyes etc).

I tell her that she should be paying me for the entertainment.

[Ms. Creepshow]

Well, I'm known to be a rather clumsy person and I always laugh at my own jokes, because hey, someone's gotta laugh!

Anyway I was in group therapy and managed to get the entire group to laugh at least once a day with my clumsiness. 't Was funny really.

Also I am generally easy to get a long with and make friends quite easily, so it didn't take long for me to get rather close with a few people in the group. One girl in particular. She was a bit like me, goofy.
We used to get the giggles quite a lot. To the therapists' annoyance.

Though I remember one time we got the entire group INCLUDING the therapists to get into a major laughing fit and nobody could get out of it. lol

We were having dinner (we had dinner together once a week), and I my friend caught me staring at her cleavage again (we're both bisexual and she would always tease me. When she found out I love breasts she started wearing tops with a lower cut every day lol), so she started laughing. And I started laughing. So then the therapists asked what was going on. My face went red and I quit laughing instantly, feeling all embarrassed. This of course set off my friend even more to the point where she nearly fell off her chair. Which then of course set everyone off. As some of the people in the group had rather contageous giggles everyone ended up giggling and laughing. Took us nearly half an hour to all calm down.

Good times.