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How to know when comedy becomes unhealthy coping

My therapist suggested I try stand-up to work through my trauma and now I'm addicted to getting laughs about the worst things that happened to me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

You've discovered that transforming pain into performance can become its own form of avoidance rather than healing.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Stand-up comedy as examined life?”

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