Humor is essential in life... but who is delivering the humor, and to what audience makes the difference between, healing and hurting...
A patient, a resident, a client who makes fun of himself in whatever context, may be helping to heal himself and lighten a bad situation, but a staff member who makes fun of the same patient, resident, client for exactly the same thing,
has more than a bit of explaining to do......

I may laugh with you, but when i laugh at you.... there is a difference..... and obviously this goes beyond mental health issues, but extends into racial, gender, national.... all issues of life......

[ January 30, 2006, 07:40 PM: Message edited by: norma ]