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Understanding Inappropriate Laughter Inappropriate laughter occurs when a person laughs in situations where it is socially or culturally unacceptable. This type of laughter can be involuntary and may not reflect the individual's true feelings about the situation. Or, they may have just found the situation downright hilarious. Several factors can lead to inappropriate laughter: Emotional Regulation: Laughter can serve as a coping mechanism to manage stress or anxiety. In tense

I have had people lie to me. I have had people lie about me. Sometimes the lies were way out there tall tales that no one could possibly have believed. Could they? Sometimes the lies were about the person telling the lie for the most part and I somehow got a dishonorable mention. Sometimes the lies turned out to be a twisted up version of the truth. Has any of these ever happened to you? If so, did it make you ask yourself how their memory of a situation or event could be so

Besides being the wrap-up of another year, and a month filled with all kinds of larger bills to pay, this month in my family is loaded up with birthdays. Nieces, cousins, aunts, a sister and myself too all have birthdays this month. Even my mother-in-law has a birthday this month. I had several ideas for gifts to give her but none of them panned out. We ended up having to ask her what she would like, which of course takes out any element of surprise. She said she likes to ea