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Where Are They Now? Mental Health Hero: Linea Johnson
When we first featured Linea as a Mental Health Hero in 2011 she said, "I'm just a girl working to better the world's understanding of mental health conditions by sharing my own story and by helping others to share theirs." She has not stopped helping others share their story as a leading advocate. Shared with a → Read More
Where Are They Now? Mental Health Hero: Trace Love
When we first met Tracy Love in 2013, she was transforming life and helping others with her lived experiences in mental health and the criminal justice system for positive change. She is passionate about her work and was already an advocate and wellness educator for many years. She continues to be a positive force → Read More
Poem: Hope
The following Poem was part of a creative blog post: How to Use Creativity As Way To Cope With Bipolar Depression. The creative process of writing the poem was incredible and helped me. I focus on the "creative process" as more important than what I wrote or what I drew. (I'm sharing the poem only to share the process → Read More
20 Things To Do If Taxes Have You Stressed Out
TAX DAY, No other day during the year causes more people more symptoms of Mental Health Issues. It should be the real Mental Health Awareness Day! On Tax Day, I believe no other day during the year does anxiety affect more people. Yes, within a 24 hour period, some will have clinical symptoms with stress often at the → Read More
2008 Mental Health Humor Cartoon Chocolate and Depression
Mental Health Humor Cartoon 2008 Chocolate Myth | Old Cartoon | Chocolate Mood |Marijuana Chocolate → Read More
Mental Health Humor: The Mythology of Chocolate Bunny
Fun Sweet Tooth Fact: The World'S Largest Chocolate Rabbit Guinness world record Chocolate Rabbit is set at 9,359.7 pounds (4 tons) It took nine professional chocolatiers eight days to sculpt a rabbit weighing in at 4 tons. The delicious giant was achieved by Equipe da Casa do Chocolate built at the Shopping Uberaba, → Read More
There I Go Again, Screwing Up Trying To Pay It Forward: I Felt Like A Fool
Part 1: Pay It Forward Weight Off Safety Monday morning and I get ready for my walk, put my 38 pack on and started walking. Besides the weights bouncing into my back, it was not a problem. The straps were tight and the pack was not meant to carry this much weight but I walked on. Got to my half-mile mark in the same 10 → Read More
There I Go Again, Screwing Up Trying To Pay It Forward: I Felt Like A Fool
I've been walking off and on trying to be steady in my exercise. A knee injury and some cold weather had me out of my routine. Then some mix-up with medication and well, motivation got wiped out. A True Friend Shows Love At All Times It seems just as I get into a routine, I'm dealing with depression or some other mind → Read More
Mental Health Humor: Winning or Second Place
In today's Mental Health Humor, I wanted to do a little wordplay with number two. Here the mother is neglecting the child and is a bit preoccupied with her wet fingernails. Maybe she is a bit narcissistic who knows, but she put her child second to her own need or wants. The child is discouraged they failed to win first → Read More
Type of Resilience: Rub Some Dirt On It
We are using my favorite Mental Health Humor (Bipolar/Depression) cartoon about the dominoes falling (#1723 Stuff Happens) to focus on Resilience. Dominoes are a metaphor to make the point with their durability. It takes more than durability for Resiliency. Is Resilience Complex Or Simple? What is it that can help give → Read More
Bipolar? Depression? Can We Learn To Be Resilient?
One of my favorite Mental Health Humor (Bipolar/Depression) cartoons is about the dominoes falling (#1723 Stuff Happens). I've had the cartoon printed (print here) and hanging on my wall for a long time. It's helped me to remember that "stuff happens." Yes, good and bad stuff happen every day! What Example Can We Look → Read More
How You Experience Anxiety, Depression, Bipolar Effects Recovery
Living with any type of Mental Illness effects recovery. This was the concept of today's Mental Health Humor Cartoon, our fish is the very cause that pushes us off balance. That happens to me often. I get in my own way of my recovery, sabotaging myself so-to-speak. I'll get so caught up in my bipolar world, that I end → Read More
Can You Handle Rejection?
How do you handle rejection? We all want to be accepted on some level by someone or something. Accepted for our work. Accepted for our accomplishments. Accepted by society as a whole or maybe we just want to be accepted by one person or family member. Acceptance by an employer, friend, lover, soulmate...and alike, → Read More
10 Mental Health Humor Love Cartoon
Ten Mental Health Humor Love Cartoons on the subject or in the relationship department (somewhat). Mental Health Humor by Chato Stewart Strawberry: "!" Chocolate Dipped Strawberry: I thought she was "THE ONE" then I found her warming up the chocolate fondue fountain. Caption: Is Your Relationship Based on Love or Lust? → Read More
Specific Phobia: Fear of Balloons Helpful Relevant Solutions
Use of Humor to Fight Back the Fear of Balloons Globophobia is the fear of balloons, it falls in the DSM-5 diagnostic under Specific Phobia (also known as simple phobias). More Information about Anxiety Disorders As a cartoonist, tend to draw out a lot of feelings. This has always served me well drawing the Mental → Read More
Specific Phobia: Fear of Balloons Helpful Relevant…
Balloon Phobia Is Worth Treatment Fear can be helpful, I agree. A lot of what I read about specific phobias include some form/type of exposure, or facing your fear (or the object of the fear). Unless it triggers unhealthy anxiety or panic attacks or other physical issues. Bought bags of balloons just to hold, feel and → Read More
Specific Phobia: Fear of Balloons Helpful…
My Worst Balloon Fear Comes True Love, it's a powerful thing! Mix that with the fear of telling my wife-to-be that I hate, with a passion, the thing she loves (sorta) more than flowers...BALLOONS. Up till now, I've avoided balloon; time was up. AFRAID of balloons or not, love makes you do strange things! Notice the → Read More
Specific Phobia: Fear of Balloons
My name is Chato Stewart and IÂ am afraid of balloons! This fear has affected my life since I was a toddler. The 'hows' and 'whys' (at this point) don't matter too much. From as far back as I can remember, my fear may be connected to some childhood traumatic experiences compounded by childhood trauma. Is Balloon Phobia → Read More
Super ‘Bipolar’ Blue Blood Moon
An ominous event occurred today on the eve of a special luna celestial day. I've been battling another bout of depression. It's been a few months, the kick in the gut came January 2nd, and for last 4 weeks, it was beyond my reach to pull myself out. Almost as if them Full Moons is playing head games, but as I woke up → Read More
Keystone, and Key Person for Our Wellness
Michael Jordan is quoted as saying, "Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships." Now, whether or not Michael Jordan is actually said this about teamwork, who knows? It's been quoted enough times that I'm sure Michael Jordan doesn't even remember. Still, it sounds good and rings true about → Read More