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 ...

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 ...

Popular and hilarious web cartoonist and illustrator Gemma Correll has just released a new graphic novel about her lifetime ...

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 ...

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 ...

Or at least, it’s not supposed to be. Depression doesn’t exactly call up visions of roaring laughter. But on FX’s You’re the Worst, some of the funniest jokes hang on the darkest topics. You’re the ...

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

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 ...

The conversation with Hearon was part of Granfalloon, the annual arts festival inspired by Indiana author Kurt Vonnegut presented by the IU Arts and Humanities Council. Bethany Habegger, ...