Open Question: Why would someone laugh uncontrollably under tremendous stress?
I was just out to eat with mom and she choked on a piece of ice. I thought she was having a seizure because she was convulsing, and I panicked and didn’t know what to do. I stood up and I was asking everyone around “Please help her!” Well she finally choked up the ice and everything ended up ok.
But after we got back in the car (thank God this didn’t happen IN the restaurant!) and I had expressed how stressed and horrified I was over the whole event, I started to laugh absolutely uncontrollably. It was this awful gut-wrenching laughter, where I could barely get my breath, and it went on for several minutes. The whole time I was thinking, “What’s wrong with me?! There was nothing even remotely funny about what happened!”
Is this some kind of stress reaction of the body? Is this normal?
Then one time my uncle had an absessed tooth and he was in tremendous pain, and after a couple hours of such pain, he started to go hysterical, just like I did - laughing uncontrollably. It must be something genetic.
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