Mental Health Humor and Cartoons

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.”

Here is the NEW Mental Health Humor cartoon for mental health month. -

Click above image to see it on the site.

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

http://www.mentalhealthcartoons.com

“Using Humor to Heal and Educate with badly drawn cartoons.” - Chato B. Stewart

Here is the 2nd cartoon - Click above image to see it on the site.

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

http://www.mentalhealthcartoons.com

“Using Humor to Heal and Educate with badly drawn cartoons.” - Chato B. Stewart

Here is the first cartoon - Click on it to go see it on the site.

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

http://www.mentalhealthcartoons.com

“Using Humor to Heal and Educate with badly drawn cartoons.” - Chato B. Stewart

Hi all,

In getting ready for May’s Mental Health month I had to add up some numbers for my blog.  I was over joyed to get our annual numbers totaled up.  In the last twelves months the Mental Health Humor blog has almost 100,000 unique visits and over 366,000 page views.  That does not unclued the the website or all the published cartoons.  So I want to thank every one for your support.

Now I’m getting ready for our second annual  Cartoon-A-Thon to draw one cartoon for each day of Mental Health Awareness month.

This year you will be able to see the cartoons here on the blog, but the site I’m volunteering for will post them first. That URL is mentalhealthcartoons.com

They will help keep track of any donations too.

I’ve been hired to do a few presentations for some local non-profit mental health groups.   More presentations will come if this cartoon-a-thon works out.

“All proceeds from our Cartoon-A-Thon go to support the development and implementation of the Mental Health Humor project and funding free public presentations. “

I need a new laptop (new-ish) and projector and other supplies.  Since there have been so many cut backs down here finding funding is harder then winning the lottery.

Well, I’m getting my art supplies ready and thinking up some ideas for cartoons so make sure you keep checking in for the new toons.

I’ll keep every one updated… I am looking for volunteers….

Any bloggers that want to help by posting the daily cartoons let me know.
If you have some free time and want to ask people or providers in your area to make pledges here is a pledge sheet *(PDF file) .

e-mail if you want to help…

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

http://www.mentalhealthcartoons.com

“Using Humor to Heal and Educate with badly drawn cartoons.” - Chato B. Stewart