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Date sent: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 11:38:47 EST
Subject: Re: HUMOR: Christmas Songs for the Psychiatrically Challenged
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In a message dated 12/10/99 10:14:08 AM Central Standard Time,
spradling-at-a-znet.com writes:

<< making fun of the disabled and all that. >>


Although I didn't post the list, it has been floating around the office I
work in for a couple of days now. Everyone here thinks it's just hysterical.
It's on everybody's bulletin board.

By the way, I work in a mental health clinic.

The therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists I work for are caring,
talented, effective providers of mental health care----------HOWEVER,
one thing they all say---You either laugh, or you cry.

I have no idea who originally wrote the list (several of us got it via email
from various un-connected friends) but I suspect it was a mental health
worker----some of the gags are too clinically correct to be a lay person's
work.

I also suspect that the original author intended it to be a lighthearted
poke, not cruel abuse of the mentally ill (who are not generally disabled).

I understand your concern about the nature of the humor, but we have patients
here who make similar jokes about their own problems----we even use words
like 'crazy' and 'nuts' (ie "It's really crazy in here today" That one
always gets the patients laughing).

It's always better to laugh than to cry.

Tami
Milwaukee