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Christina “Christi” Huff 2013 Mental Health Hero Cartoon-A-Thon

Drawing by Chato Stewart

Christi, aka The Bipolar Hot Mess, has been blogging in the mental health field since April 2011. She got her start while searching for support with her bipolar disorder because she was feeling quite alone and misunderstood with her illness and what she was going through. This opportunity came by becoming a blogger for the website Ask A Bipolar. Shortly after she started blogging there,… READ MORE

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Mentalympians is a mental health community development initiative to raise awareness of mental health recovery, inspire hope, reduce self-stigma, foster recovery and also connect individuals who are interested in campaigning for mental health reform.

I would like to thank Enzymedica’s Tom Bohager for his support. Enzymedica is Florida-based founded in 1998 to offer consumers targeted digestive enzymes products. Considered America’s #1 selling enzyme brand sold by health food store retailers. They also offer a FREE Digestive Enzyme interactive education program that is very helpful in learning the benefits enzymes have on our over all health.

Thanks to my wife Joan Winifred for her careening help and compassion for the past 21 years.

Friend me on Facebook @chato B Stewart.

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Please NOTE: This blog is participation in a MENTAL HEALTH MONTH event sharing mental health heroes in connection to Mental Health Humors Cartoon-a-thon. Please help us bring mental illness awareness and eduction all month long by sharing this post with your social network, friend and family.

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David Speicher 2013 Mental Health Hero Cartoon-A-Thon

Drawing by Chato Stewart

I worked as a Human Resources Director for over 20 years. I partnered with executives to change culture and minds moving from a harsh bureaucratic system to one with a culture of free will to approach your profession, your job and employee involvement. I also over saw our benefits programs which often had at least minimum coverage for mental health. I also managed our Employee Assistance Programs (ESP)

As a consumer and not being diagnosed until I was 42, I took the … READ MORE

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Mentalympians is a mental health community development initiative to raise awareness of mental health recovery, inspire hope, reduce self-stigma, foster recovery and also connect individuals who are interested in campaigning for mental health reform.

I would like to thank Enzymedica’s Tom Bohager for his support. Enzymedica is Florida-based founded in 1998 to offer consumers targeted digestive enzymes products. Considered America’s #1 selling enzyme brand sold by health food store retailers. They also offer a FREE Digestive Enzyme interactive education program that is very helpful in learning the benefits enzymes have on our over all health.

Friend me on Facebook @chato B Stewart.

Bonus My kids’ Drawings:

Please NOTE: This blog is participation in a MENTAL HEALTH MONTH event sharing mental health heroes in connection to Mental Health Humors Cartoon-a-thon. Please help us bring mental illness awareness and eduction all month long by sharing this post with your social network, friend and family.

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Kathi Stringer2013 Mental Health Hero Cartoon-A-Thon

Drawing by Chato Stewart

I was self-employed and a key supplier for Hughes Aircraft. Quality was important. After being hospitalized my focused changed to educating people about performance improvement, quality and corrective action to improve the delivery of mental health services… READ MORE

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Mentalympians is a mental health community development initiative to raise awareness of mental health recovery, inspire hope, reduce self-stigma, foster recovery and also connect individuals who are interested in campaigning for mental health reform.

I would like to thank Enzymedica’s Tom Bohager for his support. Enzymedica is Florida-based founded in 1998 to offer consumers targeted digestive enzymes products. Considered America’s #1 selling enzyme brand sold by health food store retailers. They also offer a FREE Digestive Enzyme interactive education program that is very helpful in learning the benefits enzymes have on our over all health.

Friend me on Facebook @chato B Stewart.

Bonus My kids’ Drawings:

Please NOTE: This blog is participation in a MENTAL HEALTH MONTH event sharing mental health heroes in connection to Mental Health Humors Cartoon-a-thon. Please help us bring mental illness awareness and eduction all month long by sharing this post with your social network, friend and family.

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Psych Central’s own Linda and Charlie Bloom are 2013 Mental Health Hero Cartoon-A-Thon

Drawing by Chato Stewart

Linda and Charlie Bloom are seminar leaders, authors, psychotherapists and consultants and are considered experts in the field of human relations. They have been working with individuals, couples, and groups throughout the country and internationally since 1975 and have been featured speakers at many professional and public conferences. They have made over 200 radio and TV appearances… READ MORE

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Mentalympians is a mental health community development initiative to raise awareness of mental health recovery, inspire hope, reduce self-stigma, foster recovery and also connect individuals who are interested in campaigning for mental health reform.

I would like to thank Enzymedica’s Tom Bohager for his support. Enzymedica is Florida-based founded in 1998 to offer consumers targeted digestive enzymes products. Considered America’s #1 selling enzyme brand sold by health food store retailers. They also offer a FREE Digestive Enzyme interactive education program that is very helpful in learning the benefits enzymes have on our over all health.

Friend me on Facebook @chato B Stewart.

Bonus My kids’ Drawings:

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Dese Rae L. Stage 2013 Mental Health Hero Cartoon-A-Thon

Drawing by Chato Stewart

Dese’Rae L. Stage (link: deseraestage.com) is a Brooklyn-based photographer working on a series of the portraits and stories of suicide attempt survivors called Live Through This (link: livethroughthis.org). Live Through This strips suicide of its anonymity, encourages survivors to own their experiences publicly and proudly, and asks the rest of us, “why not talk about it?” It is the first known project of its kind, exploring a world that has remained a taboo for far too long.

Dese’Rae never knew she wanted to be a photographer. In fact, she completed her Bachelor of Science in… READ MORE

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Mentalympians is a mental health community development initiative to raise awareness of mental health recovery, inspire hope, reduce self-stigma, foster recovery and also connect individuals who are interested in campaigning for mental health reform.

I would like to thank Enzymedica’s Tom Bohager for his support. Enzymedica is Florida-based founded in 1998 to offer consumers targeted digestive enzymes products. Considered America’s #1 selling enzyme brand sold by health food store retailers. They also offer a FREE Digestive Enzyme interactive education program that is very helpful in learning the benefits enzymes have on our over all health.

Friend me on Facebook @chato B Stewart.

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Carbamazepine 300 mg: Oh god… Please don’t hurt me!  We didn’t mean to make fun of your 10 milligrams dosage.

Depakote 500 mg: >>> K.O’ed!!

Caption: Sooner or later every bully meets their match

The idea behind this was simple, some medications I take are in low dosage but can have a huge effect on my mood, sleep, diet.  That got me thinking about some the the higher dosed drugs and how I’m sure they are all stuck up and conceded case they think they are stronger… Well this cartoon should shut them up!

Words Of The Wisdomless: Play Dead :

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” – Winston Churchill

…An Possumist sees opportunity plays dead, avoids the difficulty and remains”-
Chato Stewart

Wellbutrin: what’s that book for?

Depakote: legally, I have to disclose all my negative side effects.

Wellbutrin: is packing your head and rubbing your belly in the book?

Depakote: YEP!

Caption: Re-Reading Between the Lines of Medications

The idea behind this cartoon was a bit simple…the idea is the side effects of medication.  Anyone that is on a mental health psychotropic medication or any medication for that matter as at one time or another experienced a weird side effect. This cartoon identifies one bottle of medication as Depakote, but that’s only in the caption below. I don’t really identify him in the cartoon itself but it was Depakote I was thinking about when I drew him. One thing I used to counteract the side effect from mental health medication is a supplement called Digest Gold plus Probiotics, I use this supplement to support my digestive health… Quite frankly, I would NOT be able to eat the pizza or anything acidic including peanut butter without having issues with symptoms of acid reflex (heartburn). This supplement made by a company called Enzymedica also helps me with the negative side effects that taking psychotropic medication have on my stomach. I used to have issue with IBS after taking certain medications or whenever I switch medication, this stuff has reduced the side effects sometimes completely removing them altogether.  That’s just for the digestion, other side effects sometimes we just have to live with in order to stay balance.

I still have one side effect that plagues me ever since I started taking bipolar medications, that is “cottonmouth”. I could have knitted mittens for everyone that reads this post with the amount of cottonmouth I deal with!

In the above cartoon I focuse on an interesting twitch of rubbing your belly and pat your head, go ahead try it and see if you’re affected by the side effects.  J

This play on words has to me one of my funniest to draw… I love the face on the poor bottle with all the warning labels on it. I idea of the cartoon is simple enough coming from my medications with all the warning labels not to drink, drive causing dizziness and well you name it, it’s on psychotropic meds. So, coming up with the idea was not the problem, conveying the underling danger of labeling people was… but I think that idea is comes though with him teasing the other bottle. What do you think?

 

Chato B. Stewart
Mental Health Advocate – Cartoonist – and a few other things!
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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 .

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