During our residency, we had a choice to do an elective in psychiatry. All residents loved it as it tends to be a lighter rotation. I had a great time, and after a month, I had a completely different view of clinical psychiatry.
One day our attending asked us: "Have you ever laughed so much that it hurt your abdomen, but you still wanted to laugh more?"
Most of us replied: "Yes."
As per him: "If you had that experience even once in your lifetime, your chances of dying via depression and suicide is negligible"!
Today was one day when I laughed with my kids at something that much. I recalled my attending almost after 20 years.
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