Mental Health Humor and Cartoons

Hollo again,

My  facebook Words of the Wisdomless is off to a great start this month. If you’re on facebook and we are not connect yet make sure to friend me ASAP… lol

I will add some more of my quotes below I wrote this week. But, befor i do i just want to let you know that the cartoons will be comming back soon…  Untill then enjoy my wisdomless quotes.  Remember that every one that posts a comment here or on myFB pages quotes will be entered to will a caricurture.

As I said befor I call my quotes “Words of The Wisdonless”, and yes some of them really fit the title and a few might even have some wisdom to’em but you can be the judge of that.

Here is this weeks:

 

Words of the Wisdomless: Dream

“Following your dream can only get you so far before you go to sleep and have another dream you have to follow… No one ever informed me I need to pick just one dream at a time… Geewiz… No wonder I can never finish anything!” -By Chato B. Stewart

Words Of The Wisdomless: Recovery -

“I’m on the road to my Mental Health Recovery, the only problem, it’s a one way,dead end street. ” - By Chato B. Stewart

Words of the Wisdomless: Mental State -

“I don’t have a mental disorder… I have a mental chaos!”- By Chato B. Stewart

Words Of The Wisdomless: Mania -

 

“I don’t suffer from mania, I enjoy every moment of it.”

- By Chato B. Stewart and with inspiration from my friend Kermit.

 

Words of the Wisdomless: Mania Part 2: French Twist –

“Mania is the artist’s, the poet’s and author’s jus-de-vie, Depression is the artist’s, the poet’s and author’s soup-de-jour. - By Chato B Stewart

 

 

Words of the Wisdomless: Love —

“Love is stronger than hate! Hate is the power behind motive. Motive is action behind jealousy. Jealousy is the power of anger. Anger is the action behind rage. Rage is then powered by hate. Yet, in a moment the circle of hate can all be wiped away with just a little love.” - By Chato B Stewart

Words of the Wisdomless: Love Hate part 2: -

“Never give up, never give out, never let go! “Unless you are giving up rage, giving out love and letting go of hate.” - By Chato B Stewart

Words Of The Wisdomless :Fishing

“If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day… If you teach a man to fish without a NEW, government mandated fishing license, you’ll get a ticket and then you’re both broke.” - By Chato B. Stewart

I hope you like them and feel free to quote me and link me too please.

I’ll see you soon,

p.s.

I need writers to write about mental health, please contact me if you would like to submit a article or two… chato@peermagazine.org

Hi all,

If you on facebook , make sure to friend me ASAP… lol

After the 31 cartoons I drew in May I thought I would take a break to get cought up with some other projects.    I have done a few cartoons this week and will post them one I update my Mental Health Humor site.  Till, then I’ve started writing strange and some times funny qoutes and posting them on my Facebook, Twitter and a few other places.

I call them “Words of The Wisdonless”, and yes some of them really fit the title and a few might even have some wisdom to’em but you can be the judge of that.

Here is the 1st one:

Words of the Wisdomless: Sleep

“When you wake up on the wrong side of the bed, Go lay down on the bed again try the other side, if that don’t work, sleep on the floor… You never hear anyone saying they got up on the wrong side of the floor.”

-By Chato B. Stewart

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Words of the Wisdomless: Hope

“Even in Hopelessness there is still hope. Although, there is no hope in despair, then you’re screwed.” -By Chato B. Stewart
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 Words of the Wisdomless:: Friends

“I find that friends are like my moods, up’s and down’s… But the ones that keep coming back are the friends to keep. Besides, stalking the others always seems to get me in trouble…” - Chato B. Stewart

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Words of the Wisdomless: Recovery

“Mental Health Recovery is a long never-ending road with many turns and intersections allowing us to go off-roading now and again on the unpaved roads of our minds.” - Chato B. Stewart
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Words of the Wisdomless: Baseball

“Life can be just like baseball. You have days that feel like a strike out. Days that feel like you’re running the bases. Days when you just want to bunt and days like you caught a pop-fly in center field. Then, those special days when you hit a grand-slam… Only to trip on your shoe laces and break your ankle. That’s life!” -By Chato B. Stewart

—- And for the people who might not follow baseball her is one about soccer.

Words of the Wisdomless: Soccer

“Life can be just like Soccer. You have days that feel like Dangerous Play. Days that feel like you’re Juggling. Days that feel like Shielding and days like you’re getting a Red Card. Then, those special days when there is a Scoring opportunity and you kick the GOAL… Only to trip on your shoe laces and break your ankle. That’s life!” -By Chato B. Stewart
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Words of the Wisdomless: Apple Pie

“When you get mad and feel rage building, stop and think of Apple Pie. The calming aroma, the Sweet decadent taste as it touches your lips… WHAT THE! Gar-Dammit! WHO ate the last piece of my PIE! GRRRrrr…” - By Chato B. Stewart
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Words Of The Wisdomless : Stigma 

“When faced with depression, we need to be optimistic that we can get through it. When faced with Stigma, we should be optimistic that we can educate to stop it. When faced with both, we should quietly scream in disbelief and just walk away… from Mother.” - By Chato B. Stewart
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Words Of The Wisdomless :: Walking 

“Do you want to walk a mile in my shoes? Then make sure they are two sizes too small with a hole in the left sole and a nail stuck through the rights center shoe stabbing my foot with every step… Don’t even get me started about the athlete’s foot or that awful smell…” - By Chato B. Stewart
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Words Of The Wisdomless :: Bluetooth -

“Fitting into society has been a lot easier ever since Bluetooth technology. Now when I talk to myself out loud, I look normal and hard at work.”- By Chato B. Stewart

I hope you like them and feel free to quote me and link me too please.

I’ll see you soon,

p.s.

I need writers to write about mental health, please contact me if you would like to submit a article or two… chato@ peermagazine.com.

What a night! A full family baseball outing of fun and more…  But let’s go back to where it all started.   A few weeks ago, my local Centennial Bank held a free cook out and S’mores day.  I was taking the kids to a new local water park and we stopped there for a nice and messy snack.  While there, my son put his name in for a drawing for a baseball game with the Stone Crabs who are the Tampa Bay Rays’ minor league team.  Yep, you guessed it, he won.  But the Game was a wash-out due to a storm.

The manager of the Centennial Park then went the extra mile and got us enough tickets for the whole family, with free parking and free all-you-can-eat buffet at the ball park.

Thanks Pat!  But it gets better, while at the buffet two staff members asked my son and I to participate in a few games they do during the innings.   After I signed the damages waver, they told us to meet them during the 4th inning.

My wife and kids got our full at the buffet and then played at the kids’ playground inside the new park.  There was a little delay due to rain.  The game started and we had seats above the visiting team’s dug out.

This was all of my kids’ first game… So, it was going to be special! We just didn’t know how special.  There was light rain but that gave us a beautiful double rainbow out over center field.

The Stone Crabs mascot named Stoney, who was, of course, a “stone crab” but my two youngest girls loved him so much they kept calling for him to come over… and he did many times during the game.  But, they had their own name for him… “Lobster!”  So, the whole game the girls were calling out “lobster, lobster, lobster”.

Now time for the game.  My son had to stand on the top of the home team’ s dugout and play a matching game during the bottom of the 5th inning… He won 2 more tickets to any game he wants…

Then it was my turn… It was a dance off against me and Ron over the dugouts on top of the roofs.  What was up for grabs?  A year’s worth of Hamburgers at Wendy’s.  The music  started and we both had to dance and do our grove thing… The crowd would pick the winner by cheering for the winner when…

We both got up there and I danced and grooved my butt off… Not too sure what I did or if it was a dance at all but I danced around and I could hear my kids laughing and even heard some one yell, “shake it baby”.

The music ended and they asked every one who wanted Ron to win to cheer…  Then they asked if they wanted me to win… WOW, the stadium roared with cheer… Yes, I won.

It gets even better.  My son got a free baseball hat and two staff workers behind us gave my girls baseballs from the game. Plus, the kids had their baseballs and programs autographed by their favorite player of the evening, Shawn Williams No. 4.

It was without a doubt a great night out…

Oh, here is what happened in the game:

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — The Charlotte Stone Crabs put things away early in a dominating 8-2 victory over the Jupiter Hammerheads and claimed sole possession of first place in the FSL South division on Wednesday night at Charlotte Sports Park.

The study may be something many with schizophrenia already know… it works… But, why isthis new news? No, Clozapine has been around for year and even seen a boost in the lat 80’s but why is it not “PUSHED” by big Pharma any more? It’s all about money… Unless someone can corner the market with some new med and untested med then there is no money it in… Make one wonder if we are just guinea pigs?

Study: Clozapine may have saved schizophrenics

By MARIA CHENG – 18 hours ago

LONDON (AP) — Thousands of people with schizophrenia worldwide could have been saved if doctors had prescribed them the anti-psychotic drug clozapine, a new study says.

Clozapine was introduced in the 1970s, but was banned for about a decade because of a rare but potentially deadly side effect: up to 2 percent of patients lose their white blood cells while taking the drug.

It was brought back to the market in the 1980s with warnings about its use, and is sold generically as Clozaril, Leponex, Denzapine, Fazaclo, among other names.

In most developed countries, guidelines recommend clozapine only as a last resort, if patients have already tried two other drugs but still aren’t better.

In a study examining the death rates of about 67,000 schizophrenic patients in Finland versus those of the general population between 1996 and 2006, Jari Tiihonen, of the University of Kuopio in Finland, and colleagues found that patients on clozapine had the lowest risk of dying, compared to other patients with schizophrenia. The study was published online Monday in the medical journal, Lancet.

James MacCabe, a consultant psychiatrist at the National Psychosis Unit at South London and Maudsley Hospital, called the research “striking and shocking.” He was not linked to the study.

“There is now a case to be made for revising the guidelines to make clozapine available to a much larger proportion of patients,” he said.

Tiihonen and colleagues found that even though the use of anti-psychotic medications has jumped in the last decade, people with schizophrenia in Finland still die about two decades earlier than other people.

The researchers concluded that newer drugs including quetiapine, haloperidol and risperidone increased the death risk by 41 percent, 37 percent and 34 percent respectively, when compared to older drugs. In contrast, patients on clozapine had a 26 percent lower chance of dying. The study was paid for by Finland’s Ministry of Health and Welfare.

Experts said the Finnish findings could be extrapolated to most other developed countries. MacCabe suggested doctors might give their schizophrenic patients clozapine after trying one other drug, as opposed to two.

MacCabe said clozapine is particularly effective in reducing suicidal tendencies in schizophrenic patients, in whom suicides account for about 40 percent of unexpected deaths.

“We should find ways to get more people on this medicine,” said Lydia Chwastiak of the department of psychiatry at Yale University, who was not connected to the research. A study at the University of Maryland found that African-American patients in particular are treated less often with clozapine.

“If this drug can help people live longer, we need to look seriously at the barriers to using it,” she said.

Tiihonen said the pharmaceutical industry is partly to blame for why clozapine has often been overlooked. “Clozapine’s patent expired long ago, so there’s no big money to be made from marketing it,” he said.

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Hi All,

As many of you might remember in May I did a fundraiser with the Cartoon-a-thon at MentalHealthCartoons.com for Mental Health Month. The money raised went to developing a workshop / presentation about humor.

Well today I did my first workshop presentation and here is one highlight from the program called “Finding The Funny Bone.”

This is a Laugh Therapy exercise from the Mental Health Humor Project “Finding The Funny Bone” presentation done by Chato B. Stewart. My pepped up thriller attitude helped really made it fun.

The workshop was to show how humor and laughter can be used as a positive coping skill. This is the Laugh Out Loud exercise and we all had fun doing it.

Humor Therapy, laughter therapy, Laughter, Therapeutic Benefits

Chato B. Stewart
Mental Health Advocate - Cartoonist - and a few other things!
http://www.mentalhealthhumor.com

“Using Humor to Heal and Educate with badly drawn cartoons.”