http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/30/a-pill-to-control-laughing-and-weeping/
apparently there is a condition where you can cry and laugh involentarily. things like strokes and certain diseases cause it and the article said that its common but rarely heard of. its called pseudobulbar affect. and now they have a new drug that can fix it! its actually a combination of 2 already existing drugs. the article goes into how the disease is not known to alot of doctors and that there might not be a big enough market for the drug. but what interests me most is that there are people who actually laugh when they don't want to, or cry when they arn't sad. its almost hard to believe since both of those things take quite a bit of force to do. i wonder what it feels like to do that. it would be so odd to do those things without any emotion or reason for doing so
Of all the medical problems one can have, I guess involuntarily laughing wouldn't be so bad. But for those who actually have these problems, it's probably really annoying. It would definitely be weird to do either of those actions with no emotion behind it.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Caitlin. That would be really weird to laugh uncontrollably without something being funny. I would feel retarded.
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