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Another side of BP is mania, during which the sufferer can be very buoyant indeed, laughing and joking as hundreds of ideas flash through the brain, and many associations are made that may be bizarre. There is no question that laughter lightens the mood, lifts life and helps to create real happiness together with others. Laughing is a really phenomenal means of releasing tension; the Dalai Lama suggests we keep smiling, the most gentle and tender way of expressing a state of good humour. It is near impossible to do this in depression, but everyone who gets depressed would be better off if they tried to smile and laugh.
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Wheatley, D. (2012). Humour—A Means of Relief. In: BipolART. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4872-9_9
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