A sense of humor can be thought of in two ways: as the response to humorous stimuli (humor appreciation) or the ability to create humor (coping humor/humor production).
Facial mirth response is defined as the spontaneous response to humorous stimuli. Depressed patients frequently volunteer the information that they have lost their sense of humor.
The problem does not seem to be loss of the ability to perceive the point of the joke or even when instructed, to construct joke.
In moderate level the patient may see the point of a joke and can even force to smile, but he is usually not amused. He cannot see the light side of events and tends to take everything seriously.
Moderate loss of mirth response
Depression commonly refers to a relatively transitory, negative mood experienced by human. The terms depression or depressed are used in both the ordinary, non-clinical sense and to refer specifically to pathology, especially when the mood of depression has reached a level of severity and/or duration that warrants a clinical diagnosis.
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