Mental Health Humor and Cartoons

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.

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.”

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