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SWPS review ties the value of humor in depression to the stage of illness
Anna Braniecka's Clinical Psychology Review paper finds humor-based therapy fails in acute depression and helps most in remission or mild illness. Clinicians get a timing rule, and relatives get a warning about forcing cheer on someone mid-episode.
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