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What does it mean?
Mutual illness or suffering creates a dark bond.
In plain terms
We both have the same sickness.
What can you take from it?
Shared pain creates dark humor.

Where it applies

  • medical contexts
  • friendship under stress

Putting it to work

  • coping mechanism
  • support groups

Questions to consider

  • Does shared pain bring people closer?
  • When is humor appropriate in sickness?

Another view

This view trivializes actual medical suffering.

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