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18 Hilarious Psychiatrist Jokes to Beat Away Your Daily Blues

7 min readApr 6, 2025

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Disclaimer: if you read on, you may laugh at things that will cheer you up. You have been warned!

A psychiatrist is walking along a Hawaiian beach when he kicks a bottle poking up through the sand. Opening it, he is astonished to see a cloud of smoke and a genie smiling at him. “For your kindness,” the genie says, “I will grant you one wish!”

The psychiatrist pauses, wonders for a moment if he has lost his mind, laughs on concluding he has, then finally replies, “I have always wanted a road from Hawaii to California.”

The genie grimaces, thinks for a few moments and then says, “Listen, I’m sorry, but I can’t do that! Think of all the pilings needed to hold up the highway and how long they’d have to be to reach the bottom of the ocean. Think of all the pavement. That’s too much to ask.”

Not wanting to be unreasonable, “OK, that’s fair,” the psychiatrist says. “How about this then. I’m a psychiatrist. Make me understand my patients. What makes them laugh and cry? Why are they temperamental? Why are they so difficult to get along with? What do they really want? Basically, teach me to understand what makes them tick!”

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David Graham
David Graham

Written by David Graham

Due to injury I write using voice dictation software. Lover of psychology, science, humour, history, fiction & self-improvement. https://linktr.ee/DavidGraham86