[dp0622]

Interesting and I’ve read about it.

I’ve had depression on and off since I was 14 after a family incident, but after a head injury in my late 30s, I had swinging emotions....laughing and crying at inappropriate times...I took wellbutrin and a benzo for a while and it went away...after a while!

I haven’t watched her enough to be honest....because I’ve hidden from the news for 4 years except here to keep my sanity :)

I’ll have to watch her some...and then get depressed all over again lol

[alexander_busek]

laughing and crying at inappropriate times

I just read the Wikipedia article about Pseudobulbar Affect (linked above), and have a question. Perhaps you could weigh in:

Does the sufferer also feel the given emotion with the same apparent intensity? For example, if the sudden realization, at the library check-out line, that one has forgotten one's library card elicits, say, profuse weeping, would the sufferer likewise (if asked) characterize his predicament as "catastrophic" or "tragic?"

A clearer case might be when the sufferer displays contradictory emotions. So when the sufferer, e.g., discovers a dime in his laundry, and breaks out in peals of laughter, does he also experience overwhelming joy? Or is the laughter "hollow?"

Regards,