Humour
A lot of people ask if it is a good thing to use humour when talking about difficult subjects. Humour can be a way of coping – it can help to make situations less frightening. If joking about things has been part of the way you have coped with frightening things in the past, it might help you now. If, on the other hand, you have not used humour in this way in the past, this may not be a good time to start.
Humour can be helpful in some situations, but it has to be used carefully, so that it doesn’t seem as though you don’t understand the seriousness of the situation.