Humorists are more likely to have psychiatric illness
Have you ever thought that comedians are different people? Nothing serious, but the ease with which they joke about everything is frightening if you start to notice. Of course not everyone is 100% comedian: Fabio Porchat should get angry from time to time, and Tata Werneck may be the kind of woman who spits fire when she's in a bad mood.
Still, even if they look like “ordinary” people, humans like you and me, people who pee, poop, and shower, the people who make humor are different. Psychologically different, we mean. By the way, we don't, that Mega Curioso has nothing to do with it. The data you will see below is taken from this research.
Traces, callsigns and hell
Scientists at Oxford University in England have found that comedians or very humorous people, both men and women, have psychiatric traits that may be quite similar to those of schizophrenics, for example.
In describing their studies, the researchers used the quote from poet and writer Antonin Artaud, who also had serious mental illness and once said something like “No one ever wrote, painted or sculpted, modeled, built or invented except for get out of hell ”.
This outburst helped scientists include humorists on this list of people who make art to get rid of their "inner hell." The difference, however, is that in the case of comedians it was realized that this group of artists is even more inclined to suffer from schizophrenia or depression.
Tests and evaluations
Before you send that urgent email to Dani Calabresa - kiss, Dani! - Be calm because these results were realized after a group of 523 stand-up comedians from the UK, US and Australia underwent some sort of evaluation. With them, 364 actors were also evaluated. The researchers stressed the fact that actors do not create their own texts, while stand-up comedians usually do.
All respondents answered questionnaires, divided into four levels. The results concluded that comedians had personality traits that may mean a predisposition to some kind of mental illness.
Another thing that surprised scientists: comedians had higher grades in all sectors - they were extroverts and introverts at the same time, for example - quite different from the results of the actors, who stood out in only a few areas, as they would with Most of the people.
Brain x Google
The study authors believe that the present factors facilitate the comedian's performance. A quote from one participant was quite curious: the guy compared a comedian's brain to Google's search engine. Look:
“Comedians train their brains to think of clever association patterns… When the word 'bicycle' brings an image of a bicycle into a non-comedian's mind, for a comedian it's like starting a search on the internet - everything related comes up like pictures of fat people riding their bikes naked. ”
Studies are not yet 100% complete and they cannot claim that all comedians have or will have any mental health problems, but, as Susan Murray said on her BBC program, “It doesn't take a genius to know that every comedian is kinda crazy ”. So, do you agree?
* Posted on 1/22/2014
