Chato B Stewart's OVER Medicated

Bipolar Disorder Institute For The Overmedicated and Misunderstood

admin — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:24:27 +0000

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This cartoon is part of a series of five cartoons drawn in a Gary Larson style. In this Mental Health Humor Includes my normal overmedicated bottles mixed within the reality it of a regular cartoon. I know it’s not exactly my overmedicated style, but the title does have overmedicated and it so I thought it would be appropriate to share it on this blog. There’s a lot of subtleties in this joke Starting with spelling bipolar as we stated in New England “bipola” sounds like “by-po-LA”. I guess I always figured if there was going to be a Bipolar Disorder Institute For The Overmedicated & Misunderstood it would have to be floating on a cloud filled with oddities, bipolar polar Bears, goldfish, snakes, a dog and a bunch a happy and yet paranoid people on medication. The building style is something Gary Larson did a lot, he had the ability to bring a lot of content into just a few Windows. I think I might have overdone it a little bit, some of the joke gets lost… But the main aspect of this cartoon was to Draw in that the styling art of Gary Larson… You got a gimme props for that .

Are your Sleeping Meds Asleep on The Job?

admin — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:15:01 +0000

Medication Bottles: [Painting Tic-Tacs half blue to look like pills and medication capsules.]

Caption: Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals!

Caption: Are your Sleeping Meds Asleep on The Job?

Behind The Cartoon:

When I drew this cartoon I want think about an article i jest read and was one the nightly news about Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals. No not over seas but right in in the USA… I envisioned perople getting tic-tac’s instead of there medications. I really like the way the eyes and glasses looks… It really looks like he is “up to no good”… LOL

Chato

Don’t Mix Meds with Viagra You Could Lose Potency!

admin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:09:39 +0000

The other day I was thinking what would embarrass a medication bottle character in my overmedicated cartoons? I got to thinking about carbamazepine, Trileptal a mood stabilizer I’d take that weakens other medications effectiveness from time to time. Most notably its interaction with antibiotics, for me I believe it was just killing the antibiotic which was already dead. I had to take some for toothache I was having a while back and nothing worked they put me on five different types of antibiotics. All it did was inflame the issue… Long story and off the subject. Back to the topic, what would embarrass any medication in my mind, since in my mind each medication bottle is alive and lives its own life and deals with everyday issues the same as a human one… Helps sorry once again getting off topic, I’m bipolar gimme a break, you have to learn to talk about five different things at once when you deal with me and anyone else living with bipolar disorder… Oh it’s fun when we start talking to each other we could be talking about 10 different things and still understand each other. But sorry off topic again, so what would a medication bottle find embarrassing… The loss of potency! and that’s where this Viagra cartoon stems from… I hope you like it.

Chato

Professional Therapy Never Includes Sex… Right? By Chato B. Stewart

Women Med Bottles: Ha-Ha: Heeee Oh my, Really! Yes! OMG no way!

Speaking to Viagra Bottle: Com’on man don’t be Paranoid. I’m sure they ain’t talking about you. Hey, it could happen to any guy.

Title: Mixing Meds Can Significantly Reduce Potency!

Vote for my FC2 drawing - THANK YOU

admin — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:24:44 +0000

I won - Well, really i came in 2nd place! but the top 5 drawing won the prize.

I normally don’t enter contest but I entered this contest and I had fun drawing it and they accepted it. Now I need people to vote for it… Just hit the vote button on the page, please share it too.

~~If the frame is not working use this link~~: Contest is over - but check out my other stuff

Sleeping Medication are Asleep on The Job

admin — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:47:33 +0000

Caption: Are your Sleeping Meds Asleep on The Job?

Behind the cartoon:

I drew this cartoon with the after I thought about how many times I seen 3 different medication managers about my “sleeping” issues! It seemed like every benzodiazepines did little more than make me want to EAT, not sleep. That’s when it occored to me that my meds must be lazy or just sleeping on the job.

Chato

Congrats to all the Blogger on Psych Centrals 1st Mental Health Day Blog Party

admin — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:03:05 +0000

The Today Show and Atlantic Magazine: Featuring Single Life
(Single at Heart) - Living single life fully, joyfully, and without apology — time to blow up that theme into a feature story.

Body Image Booster: Cultivating Your Spirituality
(Weightless) - Are body image issues a comment about the state of your soul?

Are You Finding Adventure In Everything?
(Therapy Soup) - Adventure in Everything author Matthew Walker’s recommendations promotes self growth while balancing this with one’s obligations.

Mental Health Day: Should It Be Spiritual Health Day?
(Guideposts to Happiness) - While it can’t be denied that people have problems in the mental sphere, I object to the widespread assumption that they suffer from organic diseases.

Scatterbrained – I Can’t Get My House Together!
(Adventures of a Bipolar Mom) - Sometimes I really have to wonder if I don’t have ADHD!

World Mental Health Day: Human Nature and the Power of Our Stories
(Neuroscience and Relationships) - We are the creators of our stories, and at the same time, the stories we generate turn around to create our lives, and shape us in profound ways.

World Mental Health Day: Hah!
(Coming Out Crazy) - In honour of World Mental Health Day, I am reposting the first blog I wrote for Psych Central.

Mental Health Day: Lessons Learned from a Bipolar Dad
(Mental Health Humor) - I cannot help thinking “what IF’ my Father had access to information about Bipolar and Depression and Mental Health Disorders like we do today.

Mental Health Day: Self-Injury
(The Creative Mind) - It isn’t just actors or performers who engage in non-suicidal self-injury.

Like Kryptonite to Superman: In Honor of World Mental Health Day
(Bipolar Beat) - Some people feel as though the medications flat line them – as we say in Bipolar Disorder For Dummies, “Normal is boring.”

Mental Health Day: Suicide Protection Across Generations
(Healing Together for Couples) - The need to protect and care for each other may be a natural and powerful way to reduce suicide risk across generations.

World Mental Health Day: Living A Meaningful Life
(Weightless) - Thinness doesn’t buy meaning.

World Mental Health Day: A Cognitive Therapy Toolbox
(Real World Research) - Cognitive therapy has provided me a toolbox of useful techniques that work for nearly any mental or emotional jam I find myself in.

For World Mental Health Day: Reading What John Gottman Reads
(Always Learning) - Here are some of my favorite quotes from psychologist Dan Wile’s book, After the Honeymoon.

Mental Health Day: The Therapist Within
(The Therapist Within) - Perhaps it’s worth getting mentally meteorological and taking a look at what you’ll do when your weather changes.

Mental Health Day: Top 5 Celebrity Organization Efforts
(Celebrity Psychings) - These five celebrities are working hard to raise mental health awareness.

World Mental Health Day: I’ve Never Met A Shrink Who Didn’t Need One
(Private Practice Toolbox) - The most effective therapists I’ve worked with are those who’ve already worked through some of their own mental health struggles with a therapist.

Mental Health Day: Out From The Shadows
(Light, Laughter and Life) - In February of 2010, I wrote, out loud, about my bipolar.

World Mental Health Day: Partners in Wellness
(Partners in Wellness) - As the partner of someone with mental illness, you probably found your way here because you were looking for resources about how to handle your partner’s illness.

Mental Health Day: Are You Aware of Awareness?
(Panic About Anxiety) - We’re practically saturated in awareness of diseases and injustices…but are we doing anything about them?

Mental Health Day: The Salt Water Taffy Generation
(Mentoring and Recovery) - It is a great day to remember that we live in what I like to call the salt-water taffy generation.

Mental Health Day: Canadian Homelessness and Addictions (Video)
(Channel N) - Interview with a Vancouver, BC man who is homeless after completing a drug rehab program.

Mental Health Day: Thankfulness Regarding Mental Health Stigma
(ADHD Man of Distraction) - I’m thankful for the advances made by the mental health advocacy community, advances that have reduced the social stigma surrounding mental illness.

Mental Health Day Blog Party: Bringing Mindfulness to School
(Dialectical Behavior Therapy Understood) - Why mindfulness in schools?

Terrence Malick’s ‘The Tree of Life’: Consolation for the Grieving Process
(Movies and Mental Health) - This is a film that invites questions about “meaning” as well as the writer/director’s intent.

What’s Fair? The Medicare Crisis
(Aging Well) - It is just not fair to doctors or patients when money becomes the primary emotional currency that determines our interactions in medical encounters.

World Mental Health Day: A Patient Bill of Rights for Psychotropic Medications
(Anxiety and OCD Exposed) - A colleague of mine Dr. Antonuccio has had the gall to call for a Patient Bill of Rights for psychotropic medications.

Mental Health Day: Drawing From the Well
(ADHD from A to Zoë) - While appropriate treatment to support those struggling with mental health issues may not be available, we all share: sources for faith and inspiration.

Fly-Fishing & Bipolar: It’s Progress…Huge Progress
(Depression on My Mind) - People, I am here to tell you that I have made progress!

Mental Health Day: Borderline Personality Disorder: Email and Text Addiction with your Therapist
(Therapy Unplugged) - Emailing and texting your therapist can be (for some) more addictive than cigarettes, alcohol and drugs.

Pick a Finger to Boost Positivity
(Adventures in Positive Psychology) - It’s all too easy to fall back into thinking traps and automatic negative thoughts when life circumstances start bringing us down.

Treating Chronic Depression With The Chronic / Marijuana

admin — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:40:35 +0000

Medication bottle left: Yeah no self-medicating does nothing more than high the real problem!

Marijuana joint/pot: PROBLEM?? WHAT problem??? [Smiling]

Medication bottle right: {getting high off fumes}

Title: Treating Chronic Depression With The Chronic?

Overmedicated - I CAN FLY

admin — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:56:30 +0000

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Medication Bottle: What worries me more isn’t that he thinks he can fly… But that it’s working!

Bottle #2: {{Flapping arms and flying}}

Title: Strange But Useful Medication Side-Effects

Over-medicated is happy to shine some light on some strange but useful mental health medication side effects. Here is a fun one, when taking meds you my feel you can fly… What is worst, that the medications can make you fly…. Hummmm? What do you think?

The Embarrassment of Popping Pills

admin — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:17:58 +0000

Pill Bottle: [Pooping Pills]

Title: The Embarrassment of Popping Pills