Well I’m glad at least Joker raised awareness.

Poor Arthur :(

Walks into Joker: this looks like it's going to be a good comic book movie! Walks out of Joker: *intensely educates myself on various mental health issues.*

Joaquin did a good job portraying this condition

im 17 and i suffer from PBA sudden outbursts of laughter it happened today and i couldnt control myself a few people were looking at me crazy but i still couldnt stop

"why am I laughing when I'm crying?" That's my search bar.

PBA is extremely real. I had traumatic brain injury (TBI) about six years ago followed by two strokes and I have severe crying only PBA. That is the most common from TBI. It has resulted in the breakup of 44 years of marriage. I have total inability to control crying so hard I have trouble breathing and it can happen at the slightest negative thought that crosses my mind. I also cannot take any of the available treatment drugs so there is no treatment for me. The only good thing in all this is that I am not and never will be suicidal.

i couldn’t stop laughing in class it was uncontrollable we were talking about depression

Literally never knew about this until Joker.

Joker spreads more awareness about this

came here after watched joker 2019

Literally sobbing for no reason while watching this

Sometimes,when other people are laughing,even if I don't know what is funny,I just start laughing with them for no reason.

im glad i came across this, ive been seeing a guy on the bus laughing uncontrollably consistently it was scary however im glad i know now whats up

I'm 17 and this happens a lot but today i was crying uncontrollably then start laughing uncontrollably at the same time i go from laughing to crying over and over an it doesn't stop for like and hour. while i was laughing tears were still coming out, i really feel like I'm going crazy when this happened. i also laughed when my dog bit a poisonous frog but really i was going crazy on the inside.

This got me in so much trouble in elementary school. They'd always ask "what's funny about this??!?" When I'd laugh and cry together. Sometimes just laughter alone. Ive never experienced these effects causing these episodes typically (stroke, dementia, etc.) Mother drugged it up during my gestation though.

People I told before the Joker movie thought I was sick for laughing after a car accident, even though inside I felt scared and worried for my friend who was minorly injured. My friends were mad and couldn't understand why I would laugh at something like that, and I was mad at myself because I didn't WANT to be laughing. I'm so glad more people know about this, because now I don't feel so embarrassed when it happens. This said that it happens to people usually who have a nervous system disorder or injury, but when it happens to me it's during and after a traumatic or terrifying experience. I wonder if it happens to anyone else in this case.

I never had a stroke but I laugh instead of crying

joker was a great movie. dark as hell but shine a lot of awareness of multiple mental issues that very few people knew. it carries such huge deep values and concerns.

Sometimes I laugh when I'm feeling like crap

I'm here because of Joaquin Phoenix

***** The difference between people who actually just "like to cry" or "like to laugh" and people with this disorder is that people with Pathological Laughter CAN'T CONTROL IT EVEN IF THEY WANTED TO. Normal people can. I like to laugh but I can stop it just like that whenever I please. However, I have a friend who could start laughing at the same thing, but she literally cannot stop. You can easily see the difference when you have someone close to you that's struggling through it. It's a true neurological disorder and if you're going to say it's "fake" at least look it up and do more research on the disorder rather than jumping to conclusions from facts you heard on a KZfaq VIDEO. But, you have your opinions, and I have mine. And that's all I have to say about that. 👌✌

I used to suffer from this in my childhood, no one was aware about this I found about this after watching Joker...I have a huge respect for the movie for raising awareness!

searched for this because last night i got into an argument with my mum as usual, and as she exited the room slamming the door shut I found myself laughing incontrollably with tears streaming down, and in between i was actually crying. It caught me off guard, cuz even tho It did happen before, like laughing for something that wasn't funny and stuff.. but it never felt so scary. I must say, i scare myself sometimes..

Never knew about this before I watched joker, and I’m pretty sure I have it too, I show all of the symptoms and have sudden outbursts of laughter and can’t stop laughing when something funny *does* happen.

Joker raised awareness. Didn't know this thing existed. I searched this video it wasn't recommended.

This is from 7 years ago, and now people are talking about the Joker movie

He couldn't help the laughter, it was involuntarily for the disruption

I never had a stroke but went to the docs n we found out I hav PBA but not as bad as most people hav it

I work with a guy who I think suffers this. He does not cry but he will suddenly burst into fits of manic laughter for no apparent reason, for people who dont know him its fairly disturbing but he is a nice enough person.

People with this condition are still people like us. I mean, we don't have to separate them badly, theu just need our understanding on their condition. Among all of us, those with PBA are stronger bcause they still face the world though they are in trouble with themselves. We must let them know we understand them and appreciate them all the time. Give them a sense of purpose and existence ❤

The reason I looked this up is because, Whenever someone accuses of something I didn't do nor do I know about I start laughing I try to stop laughing, and whenever I try to explain the person already decides to get upset with me! This of course has made me go through many misunderstanding and I can't help but feel misunderstood because of it. But I am getting better at controlling! And it is a really good upgrade!

I don’t have PBA as far as I’m aware but I do have manic episodes and at the start of one I end up crying for almost no reason and then laugh hysterically at nothing and it can go back and forth or the laughing will start first then the crying. This has happened my whole life and I’ll just lay on the floor laughing my ass off and crying hysterically.

ive been laughing and crying for 30 minutes straight, i drank water, i walked outside, and it wouldn’t stop

I'm glad Joker brought some attention to this

Damn. How can something so happy be so sad

I searched for this at the realization that I had already experienced something similar to this in the past, though I have forgotten about it. A few nights ago, I was hanging out with a few friends on a trampoline until I fell over onto my back and started laughing. Though I saw everything around me, I was probably laughing for a consistent 20 minutes until I got a call from my mother. It turned into something sour, and it turned into uncontrollable sobbing. I'm still not positive PBA has anything to do with it yet, but if it is, I'm glad I know a little more about it.

I really don’t think I have it but this happened like three times now.. I started having an uncontrollable laughing fit for about 5-10 minutes over things that weren’t even that funny and then I started choking on one of those times and I STILL couldn’t stop laughing. I felt like I was gonna die

Even I start laughing without any reason. It's not like I am sitting and I start laughing but it's like I am talking to someone and I start laughing. And such a thing happened today but I don't remember it happened before. I am just 14 years old and have no stroke. Today such a situation happened. My mom was trying her clothes and was asking me how it looks, she looked beautiful and she asked me to take some pictures, after some pictures I started laughing and I still can't understand WHY! And when I again try to remember how I laughed I start to laugh again. I don't think I have PBA for sure. But yes I feel I need to go to the washroom urgently. And in the video I saw you say about it too, so is it because of that? My Mom is angry at me as she thinks I laughed on her but I really didn't, infact I wasn't thinking about her too! I was not understanding why this happened so searched and found this video. Please clear this out🙏🙏 But I had no strokes and I am perfectly healthy.

I'm 15 and I have had this disorder since I was a little kid and I have never had a stroke or any of the other of the things they listed off. And don't say I'm just being a teenager like I said I have had this before turning into a teen I've had this forever, and I've never knew what it was until recently. And it answers so many questions I've had over the years why I've acted strange and so back wards when I was a little kid and now.

I once laughed in my physic exam and couldn't stop lol

I'm here after seein JOKER

I haven’t been officially diagnosed, but I think I suffer from this. Whenever I’m at the dinner table and someone says a word which isn’t remotely funny, I just randomly burst out laughing. Even if someone is talking about something serious, some word which I find funny triggers me and I start laughing. I try so hard to hold it back, but then it just looks weird and everyone gives me weird looks. In those situations, I don’t even feel like laughing at all, but it just happens. I’m sick of dealing with this. It’s destroying my dignity and worsening my mental health.

I have diagnosed mental disorders, and while I haven’t been diagnosed with this , I’ve gone through weird moments of laughing and laughing suddenly out of the no where just because I felt a little happy, and I have felt like I’m going crazy definitely , it’s horrible, I laugh and laugh and laugh, but it’s scary, I’m scared and confused and frustrated, I know I’m weirding out everyone around me, and they probably think I’m crazy, I hate it so much

I have PBA caused by a stroke. It’s the worst thing ever. I was a very conservative person. My daughters had never seen me cry. Only seen me laugh a few times because I was so scared of any emotional display. I’m so thankful that I can laugh and cry now. I truly believe I had the stroke because I needed to be a better person. I am really a different person. I had a walk in soul event recently. I no longer have depression anxiety and I was a sociopath before. It’s all gone now. I am always happy for the first time in my life. My daughters won’t let me get past the old me. They constantly remind me of how I was and try to make me suffer because now I have human emotions and I get hurt easily. I think they enjoy seeing me hurt. I was a good single father. I sacrificed my best years for them and I wouldn’t change anything. This is going too long I’m just lonely because everyone abandoned me after the stroke. Tgey stoke everything first though. God bless everyone 🙏😊🙏

Bro I just started laughing out of nowhere I wasn’t thinking of anything my sister was right next to me then I started crying then laughing again it was so weird my sister was genuinely scared

I suffer from this

its a real condition I often get in trouble with this because I laugh uncontrollably every meal and my father tells me I'm crazy and everytime go to school and pass by on someone (only two of us) I laugh too or see a dog that is just barking I laugh too and then I cry suddenly.If I laugh too hard I cry too and when I cry I laugh too.

Damn Mrs.Cosby I appreciate the information

Thank you so much for public that procurement of it is very much helpingspecially for me because I was gone through that type of little disorder butpopping up with such type of situation now I think I have power to copper with such type of situations

Ugh that sound depressing

I think it was Danny Glover who did a public service ad about this condition awhile back...

Can't control my laughter while watching this video

-Why are you watching this video? You don't have BPA -You wouldn't get it

i think it happens to a lot of people but has anyone laughed so much or so hard that they just burst out crying?

I have moments where im sobbing and wailing but simultaneously laughing hysterically. sometimes I wanna cry but all I can do is laugh, and vice versa. this is so hard for me, and my parents dont wanna accept it. they don't care. im alone in this...

This happened to me at one incident where my plan for an important event failed miserably because of someone's ignorance.

***** Well, it isn't always a disorder on it's own. But it IS real and usually is associated with an underlying mental problem. Wether you've had a stroke, you have epilepcy, etc.

For some reason, when I wake up or whatever, my dad says stop crying, and I say wth are you saying and rush to the bathroom, when I searched up is there a diease that makes you cry out of nowhere. I found this. And I’m crying right now, I don’t think I have strokes or stuff, but it’s uncontrollable. Everybody thinks I’m crazy. I hate it. It’s only makes me cry and that’s the bad part. They call me a crybaby. And for some reason, when I was crying and calming down, my dad came in the room, and I burst out crying. This is the longest time I had tears and snot roll down my face... And when I talked about it I bursted into tears.. IDK WHY I’m sure I’m crazy

Is she the counsellor of Arthur? She still doesn't listen!!!

It’s really hard living with it. The joker really portrayed it perfectly

so glad i found this been dealing with this and no one could tell me what was going on until i posted this video of me crying and laughing I posted on my stroke group

who else came here after Joker

I loved my mom very much. I laughed at my mom's funeral .She committed suicide when I was just 17.. The handout paper said celebrating the life of .... I just thought at the time she's partying in heaven,. Now I understand this condition.

I have this, thanks for telling me about it so I can seek help.

So could it be said that this condition causes those who have it to either cry or laugh about various things or events and have no control over it or am I not understanding correctly?

I'm not sure if i have this disease, prolly not but today i just started crying and hysterically laughing at the same time. I couldn't control myself and punched the wall so hard that i now have bruises. Lastly i started banging my head on my latptop and now i have a headache. I have had these kind of 'episodes' before but i only let myself out when i'm alone in my room. And the only reason i did all of this was purely because of some small issues. I also thought that i was just having a mental breakdown since i've been stressed with school work lately. Idk...

The Joker movie brought me here

This condition seems very serious, glad Joker raised awareness, now the assholes who get mad or tease someone because of this, will feel bad and get shocked that the person they teased really has a condition

Very informative thanks.

Thanks doctor for talking about this thing this information helped me a lot thanks a lot✝️🛐

my favorite singer passed away yesterday . i cant stop myself from laughing when i know that im hurting myself

What if a consumer has comorbid PBA & BPD can or should some of the DBT therapy be used without further adding to their already altered sense of self?

I don’t know if I have PBA. I laugh all the time at bad situations but I don’t cry? The last time I cried was years ago and I’m 14, somehow I cant control the laughing and I don’t know how to control it

What if you do this but you never had a stroke or ALS or any other of the mentions above? Can someone with bipolar disorder also have this?

I had a pretty bad skull fracture when I was very young so I assume that's when it developed. as a kid I got pretty bad beatings by my father and I would laugh which would make him even more upset and in turn I'd get beat worse. in my early teens I was meant to go with some friends to the beach and ended up over sleeping. they were caught in a rip current and went missing for days. when the news broke and I found out I started giggling and smiling and I got so mad at myself. I didn't understand why I did those things happened until Phoenix's performance in Joker. I haven't had to deal with it in years so I'm not sure of it's something that can just go away or what but yeah just thought I'd share my experiences. (edited some autocorrected words.)

I have pba and I'm only just realizing it. I'm only 17 years old and it has gotten me in a lot of trouble in the past especially with teachers.

I never had a brain injury or stroke or anything like that but whenever someone brings bad news like someone's death or an extreme injury or something painful I start laughing I get mixed emotions feeling sad suddenly during happy moments and sometimes uncontrollable laugh when I get bullied, today my mother was scolding me and I suddenly burst outta laughter I am not crazy I did have some strange experiences in my childhood like when I was 9 I felt sadistic I skipped 4 classes from grade 6-11 after the birth of my CP sister my parents went in depression due to medical bills, the pressure of uni, the pressure of helping my parents I am just trying to ask what am I suppose to do. Do I have it or not how can I tell my parents I am just tired

I’ve never had a stroke or any head trauma but sometimes I get explosive anger and start laughing and crying or when I’m simply slightly sad I just start sobbing uncontrollably :/

HAHAHA "Whats so funny?" hahaha nothing. I have a condition

I have no idea if I actually have this or not but my problem is that I silently cry and laugh at so many things that aren’t even sad or funny. I don’t sob (unless i start talking about said thing to someone) but instead I get choked up and have to hold back tears and laughter?? And I mean it’s small things like today I was with my mom and we were driving down the highway singing some songs in the radio and I had to periodically stop singing and face the window so she wouldnt see my crying and trying not to laugh. It’s like the smallest thing can cause me to get teary eyed and choked up and then I have to try and not laugh either

What if I haven’t had any Of these things to cause it, can I still get it?

I sort of have that kind of condition but i don't cry, i laugh to almost everything including discord VC with my friends, I didn't know if it was just insanity that was causing my laughter but how wrong i was. btw it really does hurt to laugh, to me apparently. none of my friends know i have this condition and i myself didn't know about it until October or November when i decided to look it up. well I've taken a role of being the jester cuz of how i have some sense of humor(still trying to be a comedian) but over time i just go by a crazy, insane jester i was ok with that. but i couldn't control my laughter a lot which causes me to wheeze and laugh. to prove i kind of have it, one of my friend went into a bad breakup(will NOT go into detail) it was actually sad to hear and i almost burst out laughter but i still laugh at it, which worried me that i'll lose my friends on discord, I have never ever asked for help but over time i was somewhat able to "control" it but i still burst out laughter which has now been getting worse and been affecting both my mood swings and paranoia. when i was young i never had PBA, then again i been hit in the head many time and had a small rock thrown to the back of my head from my brother(mind i add IT HURT, my brother had a hand of a god for christ sake!) also i may have driven myself into madness cuz i had so many problems interacting people and being anti social(i rather be alone at some point) Edit: OK i sort of lied when i don't cry, I actually did once, the reasoning behind that is that kitten harely was so sick me and my family fear we might lose her, and during the time when she was on my lap cuddleing like the little furball she is i decided to leave a music playlist(i enjoy music but i have strange taste) it was a cover song called catch fire i think by the cog is dead or something around that and i was tearing up cuz i fear of losing her and i was tearing up i went into laughter(thankfully my parents didn't hear it, they don't know about me and i would like to keep it like that!) so yea I believe i do have PBA

If I was a stand up comic I would hire a few to sit in on my shows

But what is that wooden thing on the desk on the right?

I don’t know if I have this, but I am a bit confused. I remember getting stressed a couple of times and it felt like something was coming, like a storm was about to come inside of me. Then I ended up laughing extremely hard that it hurt, and then crying to where I couldn’t breath. It was a cycle over and over again. I couldn’t walk, so my brother had to carry me to my parents. I was scared and I didn’t have the strength to completely stand on my own, I didn’t want to talk, I had no appetite, and I had to lay down immediately although I couldn’t even sleep. It was like I turned into an unresponsive zombie. I don’t know what it was this pseudo affect thing, but all I know if that it was like a switch in my brain moving up and down. Although, it’s only happened a few times. Is there anyone who knows what this may be? I’d appreciate your help; I’ve been wondering for months:(

Why does this woman remind me of Michelle Obama?

Just had an experience like this today I don’t know what triggered me to outburst like that when I was in a very depressed and suicidal state of mind. I was laughing uncontrollably and laughing so hard that I literally had nonstop tear flow running down my cheeks, and my whole body was numb and twitching afterwards and I felt really different it was a really strange experience..

Have pba due to MS. There's been moments where a funeral happened, and I'll bust out laughing and people going like "have you gone crazy? You need help"

Damn I just found out I have this 😕. It only happens when I’m mad and I don’t realize I’m mad until the laughter and crying stops .

I’ve had PBA since forever. My mom thinks I’m crazy . It’s embarrassing for me because everytime I start laughing it slowly turns into crying even though I’m not sad and it’s soo embarrassing because I know people start looking at me weird .

i have PBA Ep once will have it again I was tired ?

hi i dont know if i have this or not bc i didnt have a stroke or anything like that, but this has happened to me 2 times already, i was in dance class and my teacher said a funny joke so i laughed but then the laugh suddently became tears, but not of joy, of sadness and i felt really weird. But this happened to me today again, i was showing my mom my guitar progress and i accidentally hit my chin on my guitar, i started laughing but then i started crying so bad i just couldnt stop, and i did not cry because it hurt, it didnt i just started crying for no reason at all. Please can someone help me, is there something wrong with me or why is this happening??

I’ve gone through some heavy mental trauma as a kid, but have the same symptoms of PBA. I laugh at serious talks, people getting hurt, i laugh for a while too and it’s super intense. Is it possible to have PBA without having strokes, als, etc? I’ve only been diagnosed with anxiety and depression.

I had a strange experience that ive been trying to figure out, one time my mental health was really at the shitties point then i broke down really hard and started crying for hours and hours, but after a good amount of crying i started laughing completely out of nowhere, i laughed for a while then i calmed down and stopped crying completely, its kind of hard to explain and im sorry if that sounds weird but the entire time that happens im just very confused, i dont know why im laughing but i know i wasnt supposed to, i want to cry more but i just kept laughing, idk if its my brain trying to forcefully control my crying but yeah...

Just wondering, people with PBA, how do your control your emotions? Do you just let it pass or do you take medicine to keep it in check. Is it like Depression, or like having tourettes (constant feeling or a sudden burst) or a combination?

I’m here because of The Joker. I saw it last night

How do you get it? I don’t want it just curious probably should’ve said what causes it

I gust have laghing What shoud i do

can someone help me i just laugh randomly but have naver had a stroke like crazy or like i feel weightless like i can do anything i want do anyone know what this could be?