• What Group Has the Best Social Cues Skills – Need a Cue?

    Updated: 2012-07-31 11:19:48
    “Social cue is a psychological term used to describe the non-verbal hints to guide conversation.”  This is now one of my favorite cartoons I’ve drawn! Yes, it’s a “Jeux de mots” (French for “play on words”). I wish I could see your reaction, so I can gauge your social cues on how you like the [...]

  • Video: Nine More Mental Health Heroes Reviewed by Summer Beretsky

    Updated: 2012-07-31 11:19:48
    Video: Nine More Mental Health Heroes Reviewed by Summer Beretsky Meet them on Facebook below. https://www.facebook.com/psychcentral Video: Chato Stewart’s Mental Health Hero Caricatures (Part 2) Chato B Stewart Wife & Sister ‎Barry Erdman Amy Ebbeson Lee Horbachewski says: “I am beyond touched Chato & Summer. Thank you for including me in this incredible group of [...]

  • Oh Friggatriskaidekaphobia it’s Friday the 13th AGAIN

    Updated: 2012-07-31 11:19:48
    Friday the 13th AGAIN??!!  Yes, if you have Friggatriskaidekaphobia then today will not be your day...it’s “Friday the 13th”! The good news is it is the last time Friday will fall on the 13th in 2012. Here are a few cartoons I’ve drawn about the 13th. I hope that if you suffer with Triskaidekaphobia that [...]

  • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline “REASONS TO CALL” Photo Campaign

    Updated: 2012-07-31 11:19:48
    Back in May, I had my Mental health Heroes cartoon-a-thon, and I filled my days with drawing some very amazing people/heroes! I had to put a few things on the “back-burners” for a while. This was one of the things I wanted to share, and it is something you can get in on, too. It’s [...]

  • Mental Health Hero Caricatures (Part 4)

    Updated: 2012-07-31 11:19:48
    I want to send a HUGE THANK YOU to Summer Beretsky for taking the time and effort to make four awesome video blog posts  (vlogs) at Psych Central’s World of Psychology for the May’s 2012 Mental Health Heroes! I have already heard back from the heroes you reviewed, Summer, and they were thrilled to be [...]

  • Home Cure: Anxiety – Get a Pencil

    Updated: 2012-07-31 11:19:48
    The pen/pencil is mightier than the sword. In this case, it is mightier than Xanax! That is the conclusion of Dr.Fred Sheftell, MD, from the New England Center for Headache in Stamford, CT. While this home cure was more for headaches, it also simultaneously may help reduce stress or anxiety. Take your everyday #2 school [...]

  • Do You Laugh When Someone Falls? Is it Superiority Theory or a Fact of Life?

    Updated: 2012-07-31 11:19:48
    Do you laugh when someone falls? Come on, be honest, you have to admit sometimes it can be funny…well, unless you are not in on the joke and the laughter is directed at you or your mistake/slip-up! Yes, there is a term for this kind of humor.  It’s called Superiority Theory, and it’s when you [...]

  • Do You Belong in Anger Management Therapy?

    Updated: 2012-07-31 11:19:48
    Anger is one of the most explosive emotions we humans have in our repertoire of feelings. How we handle anger says a lot about who we are as people. Do we get mad and basically blow the top of our heads off, yelling and screaming like a banshee* to blow off steam? Or do we [...]

  • DBSA Positive Six Campaign JULY – Give It a Try Challenge

    Updated: 2012-07-31 11:19:48
    As you know, May 2012 was Mental Health Awareness Month and the DBSA kicked off its six-month long project to help peers make a few changes. The program is called: “Positive Six Campaign!” I was privileged to be commissioned to draw a cartoon for each of the the +6 campaign months. I chose to use [...]

  • 90 Percent Chance Of Being Depressed

    Updated: 2012-07-31 11:19:48
    Okay, so it’s no secret that I’ve been on a bit of down slope last past 45 days. Today, I came across www.whatsmym3.com. They have a free online psychological disorders test. I thought, “let me just take the test to see if the results match up with what I already know.”  Will my Depression line [...]

  • 6 More Heroes

    Updated: 2012-07-31 11:19:48
    Then there were three! Yes, Summer Beretsky, contributing video blogger (vlogger) at PsychCentral’s World of Psychology blog reviews six more mental health heroes from May’s 2012 Mental Health Heroes Cartoon-A-Thon; totaling 24 of the Mental Health Month’s heroes. I want to THANK her for taking the time to do the videos! I can’t wait to [...]

  • 3 Dangers Of Labeling

    Updated: 2012-07-31 11:19:48
    Labels hurt. We are surrounded by them and we even use them ourselves sometimes without thinking about it. They can be self-defeating thoughts. For example, when I stepped on the scale the other day and saw that I gained weight after a 45-day bout with a depressive episode…My first thought was I was a “fat, [...]

  • What Do You See?

    Updated: 2012-07-31 11:19:48
    What do you see? How does it make you feel? How can your share that feeling? Friend me on Facebook @chato B Stewart ——————————————— Subscribe to my Newsletter —————- View previous Newsletters. Originally Posted on http://blogs.psychcentral.com/humor YOU need permission use ©2011 Mental Health Humor Cartoons   Check out who made the list of top 10….I’m [...]

  • Using Anger Constructively – An Angry Bird Philosophy

    Updated: 2012-07-31 11:19:48
    What Really Makes the Angry Birds Angry? Emotions are emotional! Part of our emotional makeup includes anger! For many of us living with “mental health issues,” anger might seem to be the only emotion we truly understand. We may be short-tempered due to circumstances that seem out of our control. Our anger could be deep-seated [...]

  • The Basics, Diagnosis, and the Treatment of Bipolar Disorder for Patients and Their Families

    Updated: 2012-07-31 11:19:48
    A Webinar titled “The Basics, Diagnosis, and the Treatment of Bipolar Disorder for Patients and their Families” will be presented by Joseph Calabrese, MD, on July 11th. I can’t help but think about the title, and thinking about the basics of bipolar disorder has me intrigued. When I think about the basics of my diagnosis, [...]

  • The 2012 Mental Health Heroes: Exposure On Psych Central’s World of Psychology

    Updated: 2012-07-31 11:19:48
    Summer Beretsky does the Video Blog/Video Review on the World of Psychology blog here at Psych Central.  It’s such a privilege and honor to have Summer exclusively feature the Mental Health Month’s Cartoon-a-thon Heroes in her video series titled: “Chato Stewart’s Mental Health Hero Caricatures.” Thank you, Summer! Below is her first installment of nine [...]

  • Suicide By Cop or ECT By Cop?

    Updated: 2012-07-31 11:19:48
    ME sanity? “They’re always after ME sanity!” Yes, I’m just changing the “Lucky the Leprechaun” quote, “they’re always after me lucky charms.” If you don’t know, Sir Lucky is a spokesperson (cartoon character) for General Mill’s Lucky Charms cereal. Even though I love this cereal too much, the fact is I can’t pick a favorite [...]

  • The 2012 Mental Mental Heroes

    Updated: 2012-07-31 11:19:48
    Here are all the 2012 Mental Health Month Heroes.  I’ve added a retweet link at the end of each title so you can share your favorites. Opps! I Forgot One Hero – Mental Health Hero Corinna West- retweet     Our Last 2012 Mental Health Hero is LISA CHALKLEY - retweet     Mental Health [...]

  • Mental Illness Is Like Playing Mouse Trap – It’s Full of Snares!

    Updated: 2012-07-31 11:19:48
    What Is A Snare? The dictionary defines a snare as “a trap for catching birds or animals, typically one having a noose of wire or cord.” Some other synonyms would be “a trap,” “noose,” “pitfall,” or “deadfall.” It’s like the Mouse Trap game – did you ever play it? It’s filled with different types of [...]

  • Living With Bipolar: Emoticons Flowchart

    Updated: 2012-07-31 11:19:48
    What Emoticon best describes YOU at this moment in time? It’s tough living with Bipolar Disorder. My moods fluctuate rapidly at times (I am not complaining, just explaining), but I am not alone and neither are you. Everyone has something in their life that makes it tough for them personally! You know your personal pain. [...]

  • JUNE: Positive Change Challenge

    Updated: 2012-07-31 11:19:48
    Yes, I know I’m a bit late on this, but I still wanted to share the June DBSA “Positive Six Campaign” challenge with you. There is still time to be part of it. This cartoon is the second of six I’ve been commissioned to draw for the +6 campaign via my other cartoon series The [...]

  • How Dr. David Hunnicutt, President of WELCOA, left me speechless. (Or, why I wrote a book about Stress.)

    Updated: 2012-07-31 11:19:16
    I first met David Hunnicutt, the President of WELCOA at the American Journal of Health Promotion Conference in Hilton Head South Carolina. Dr. Hunnicutt was giving the keynote address and I was really impressed by it. I happened to bump into him the next day, and I introduced myself, told him a little about what I did, and I told him how much I liked his speech. A year later when I ran into him again at another conference, he surprised me by saying that he remembered meeting me the year before and that he planned on stopping by my booth the next day.

  • Are You Stress Sensitive?

    Updated: 2012-07-31 11:19:16
    Do you ever wonder if stress affects you more than the average person? Are you easily annoyed or frustrated by minor inconveniences?

  • Tend and Befriend Meets Fight or Flight

    Updated: 2012-07-31 11:19:16
    When I was growing up my parents constantly stressed the importance of going to college. That idea was pretty much drilled into my head from the day I started kindergarten. "You're not going to get into a good college with grades like that, Jimmy!" My mother would always say, even on some of my earliest report cards. So you can imagine the stress I put them under when, approximately eleven years later, it looked like I wasn't even going to graduate from high school.

  • Ten Tips for Stress Free Travel

    Updated: 2012-07-31 11:19:16
    Home Products Stress Tips Webinars Blog Blog Home Past Entries Authors Stop Stress This Minute From Jim Porter and WELCOA Learn More StressStop Blog Ten Tips for Stress Free Travel Jim Porter M.A.L.S . President , StressStop.com Friday , July 1st , 2011 Tweet Last summer , my niece invited us to her wedding in the tiny town of Bradninch , England which is about three hours south of London in the county of Devon . I decided to turn this wedding invitation into an epic 17-day family vacation with stops in Rome , Florence , Venice , Paris , London and of course , Bradninch . It was an amazing vacation , but a real logistical challenge which included one 12-hour period where we woke up in a Paris hotel , took a high-speed train that morning from Paris to London , met up with my 21 year old son

  • Ron Siegel on Mindfulness

    Updated: 2012-07-31 11:19:16
    Five years ago I was asked by the U.S. Army to put on a mindfulness presentation at their national health conference in Albuquerque, NM. I knew very little about this subject at the time, so I politely declined. For some reason, that Army Representative (who had heard me speak on stress management at a Navy health conference) wasn't going to give up that easily and persuaded me to do it.

  • Yoga and Chronic Pain

    Updated: 2012-07-31 11:19:16
    When I miss yoga for more than a week, a long running bout with chronic pain (which may have to do with an old case of Lyme disease) rears its ugly head. When this chronic pain first hits me I feel a low level ache that runs up and down the backs of my legs. Sometimes, if I let things go long enough, it radiates out into other areas of my body, like my hips. It's hard to describe exactly, except to say, that if I bend down with my legs straight and try to touch my toes the pain is often excruciating.

  • Stress, Multitasking and Attention Span

    Updated: 2012-07-31 11:19:16
    I've never been a fan of multitasking from a stress management perspective and as the result of reading an interesting article in Scientific American Mind Magazine on multitasking a few weeks ago, I've decided that my feeling about multitasking have been confirmed. "Effective multitasking is a myth. So, too, is the idea that members of the 'multitasking generation,' who grew up with video games, smart phones and e-readers, can somehow concentrate on several things at once. In fact, research indicates that frequent multitaskers are often the worst at it."

  • You Teach What You Most Need To Learn

    Updated: 2012-07-31 11:19:16
    Home Products Stress Tips Webinars Blog Blog Home Past Entries Authors Stop Stress This Minute From Jim Porter and WELCOA Learn More StressStop Blog You Teach What You Most Need To Learn Jim Porter M.A.L.S . President , StressStop.com Monday , June 18th , 2012 Tweet When I first got into the stress management business over twenty five years ago , I was stress sensitive see my previous blog entitled : Are You Stress Sensitive and I didn't even know it . Over the first ten years in this business I would occasionally suffer from stress-related health problems and not even fully appreciate the irony , or even care . And that's one of the enduring mysteries of stress : why we don't always see how stress affects us Why we don't see how grumpy we've become , or how easily upset we've become , or

  • Prosopobibliophobia

    Updated: 2012-07-30 08:00:00
    Facebook phobia, or having an aversion to all things Facebook. "I'be been suffering from a bout of prosopobibliophobia - I haven't updated my profile pic, in months"

  • My New Collaboration

    Updated: 2012-07-27 19:38:12
    Motivational Speaker Kelly Swanson Announces Collaboration with Concert Pianist Joshua Noble http://www.free-press-release.com/news-motivational-speaker-kelly-swanson-announces-collaboration-with-concert-pianist-joshua-noble-1343408919.html (Copy & paste the url to address bar if not clickable.)

  • Working Hard Versus Working Smart Versus Hardly Working

    Updated: 2012-07-26 19:56:05
    I was hanging out and chatting on one of my favorite blogs (www.motivational-speakers-review.com) and one of my favorite speaker friends Marilyn Sherman (www.marilynsherman.com) commented that I was one of the hardest working motivational speakers she knows. And I was flattered because who doesn’t like being called a hard worker? It’s a value trait I aspire ...

  • Tom Cruise! I’ll Be Your Wife! – Livia Scott

    Updated: 2012-07-26 02:04:16
    10 reasons why Tom Cruise should marry Livia Scott: http://www.livia-land.com/The post Tom Cruise! I’ll Be Your Wife! – Livia Scott appeared first on FunnynotSlutty.

  • My Journey Through Forgiveness

    Updated: 2012-07-22 16:01:30
    This is an important word to me, and one that ranks highly on my list of values as a motivational speaker, and as a person - for many reasons. What is forgiveness? The ability to let go of your anger towards someone else for something they have done. Is it something we do for them? In a ...

  • But Darling…Everybody Knows…

    Updated: 2012-07-18 03:20:15
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  • Will the real Burlesque please stand up?

    Updated: 2012-07-05 21:03:53
    Today I’m not coming to you as your never ending fount of wisdom motivational speaker, but as your wacky friend who has to tell you the funny thing that happened the other day, since my husband is apparently tired of my incessant rambling. I’ll tell you instead. I know you’ll listen. You’re here aren’t you? Anyway…My mother ...

  • New Review of “The Color of Evil” (July 4, 2012)

    Updated: 2012-07-05 20:18:08
    Wednesday, July 4, 2012 Review – The Color of Evil Tad McGreevy has a power that he has never revealed, not even to his life-long best friend, Stevie Scranton. When Tad looks at others, he sees colors. These auras tell Tad whether a person is good or evil. At night, Tad dreams about the evil-doers, [...]

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