Do you giggle when you get bad news?

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Everytime friends, co-workers, or strangers give me bad news like someone has cancer or has died I have to hold back to keep from giggling. I often put my hand over my mouth to supress it. But it does not happen when family tells me bad news. Anyone else do this or am I the only one.

I don't giggle, when I hear bad news, but I do giggle, when I read a vulgar news story, in the paper, or on the Internet. The vampire story is a perfect example.

Strangley enough(at times) .

There was a relatively recent post by someone here on WP, and the member added some good insight into this^.
It had to do with focusing on an odd detail of the thought, thereby 'missing the moment 'by focusing on"that detail", to paraphrase.

This thought made re-think ' those moments', and sure enough , it's applicable .

Not an exactly a flattering concept , though.

I dont giggle but I smile....I do the same thing when I give someone bad news but sometimes I can cry at the same time. After I saw the movie Mozart and the Whale and saw that woman who smiled all the time I said ......"OH my gosh, its like an overacted me" .
I cant help it....I smile all the time. People are always saying....ever since I was a kid....that I am always so happy. The thing is, Im not always happy its just this stupid smile is stuck on my face!

I chuckle sometimes. It's a bad habit, really.

When one of my co-workers wivesw died on the operating table for a simple procedure I was so afraid I was going to laugh when they told me. I did not laugh but was thinking a lot weird thoughts about her situation.

Antithetical laughter kind of runs in my family. We all get the chuckles at the wrong time from time to time. I think of it as sort of a nervous chuckle. My sister once joked that when funeral directors put the family of the deceased behind a curtain, it's usually to give them privacy for their grief, but with our family it's to hide the fact that we're all giggling. (Yes, we were at a funeral at the time, for one of my uncles.)

Sometimes people laugh when under severe stress. I once heard about a police officer who had to call round and tell a woman that her husband had died in an auto accident and the poor guy burst out laughing on the doorstep. It was the first time he was sent to do this job.

Vanilla_Slice

Yes
My cousin and I could fall into this a lot when teenagers.
We were banned by our Great Uncle for laughter that should have been' an anything other than.'
Never spoke to us ever after .
But as Ive said before its an inappropriate cognitive focus at the current given moment ; missing the overall context in that moment of time i.e. neurological.
And as the OP mentioned , it can preload you with anxiety , and the more anxiety the weirder we get

i think i do yes but i think it when i dont understand it

I get a weird, goofy smile when getting bad news...
Its very hard (a.k.a. nearly impossible) to supress and cover.

I don't laugh at bad news, but I sometimes get an uncontrolable smile when I am trying to be serious or when someone else (my boyfriend, for example) is trying to talk to me about something serious. It's not that I think it's funny, it's just that I can not control it and I don't know why. I've heard years ago that it is called a "nervous smirk", basically a smile you can't control when you are very nervous or in an uncomfortable situation.

Not exactly, but I do sometimes involuntarily smirk or grin, when I am suddenly upset (told of a death, etc). It's humiliating when that happens, as I certainly don't think it's funny or worthy of a grin when there's a tragedy. I don't understand why it happens, and I have to consciously catch myself to prevent it sometimes. I'm still in the learning stage on Asperger's and how so many of my lifelong traits are part of it. I think I may have read something about facial expressions sometimes being opposite the emotion felt, under sudden stress.

Charles