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- 23. January 2012: Don't Mix Meds with Viagra You Could Lose Potency!
- 5. December 2011: Vote for my FC2 drawing - THANK YOU
- 7. November 2011: Sleeping Medication are Asleep on The Job
- 12. October 2011: Congrats to all the Blogger on Psych Centrals 1st Mental Health Day Blog Party
- 22. September 2011: Treating Chronic Depression With The Chronic / Marijuana
- 13. September 2011: Overmedicated - I CAN FLY
- 24. August 2011: The Embarrassment of Popping Pills
- 21. August 2011:
- 17. August 2011: Pet Therapy will Reduce Medications
- 24. June 2011: He was full of LIFE… Three to Four Times a day on an Empty Stomach
Don’t Mix Meds with Viagra You Could Lose Potency!
23. January 2012 by admin.
The other day I was thinking what would embarrass a medication bottle character in my overmedicated cartoons? I got to thinking about carbamazepine, Trileptal a mood stabilizer I’d take that weakens other medications effectiveness from time to time. Most notably its interaction with antibiotics, for me I believe it was just killing the antibiotic which was already dead. I had to take some for toothache I was having a while back and nothing worked they put me on five different types of antibiotics. All it did was inflame the issue… Long story and off the subject. Back to the topic, what would embarrass any medication in my mind, since in my mind each medication bottle is alive and lives its own life and deals with everyday issues the same as a human one… Helps sorry once again getting off topic, I’m bipolar gimme a break, you have to learn to talk about five different things at once when you deal with me and anyone else living with bipolar disorder… Oh it’s fun when we start talking to each other we could be talking about 10 different things and still understand each other. But sorry off topic again, so what would a medication bottle find embarrassing… The loss of potency! and that’s where this Viagra cartoon stems from… I hope you like it.
Chato
Professional Therapy Never Includes Sex… Right?
Women Med Bottles: Ha-Ha: Heeee Oh my, Really! Yes! OMG no way!
Speaking to Viagra Bottle: Com’on man don’t be Paranoid. I’m sure they ain’t talking about you. Hey, it could happen to any guy.
Title: Mixing Meds Can Significantly Reduce Potency!
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Vote for my FC2 drawing - THANK YOU
5. December 2011 by admin.
I normally don’t enter contest but I entered this contest and I had fun drawing it and they accepted it. Now I need people to vote for it… Just hit the vote button on the page, please share it too.
If the frame is not working use this link: http://id.fc2.com/facebook_contest/index.php?page=vote02&entry=107
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Sleeping Medication are Asleep on The Job
7. November 2011 by admin.
Caption: Are your Sleeping Meds Asleep on The Job?
Behind the cartoon:
I drew this cartoon with the after I thought about how many times I seen 3 different medication managers about my “sleeping” issues! It seemed like every benzodiazepines did little more than make me want to EAT, not sleep. That’s when it occored to me that my meds must be lazy or just sleeping on the job.
Chato
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Congrats to all the Blogger on Psych Centrals 1st Mental Health Day Blog Party
12. October 2011 by admin.
The Today Show and Atlantic Magazine: Featuring Single Life
(Single at Heart) - Living single life fully, joyfully, and without apology — time to blow up that theme into a feature story.
Body Image Booster: Cultivating Your Spirituality
(Weightless) - Are body image issues a comment about the state of your soul?
Are You Finding Adventure In Everything?
(Therapy Soup) - Adventure in Everything author Matthew Walker’s recommendations promotes self growth while balancing this with one’s obligations.
Mental Health Day: Should It Be Spiritual Health Day?
(Guideposts to Happiness) - While it can’t be denied that people have problems in the mental sphere, I object to the widespread assumption that they suffer from organic diseases.
Scatterbrained – I Can’t Get My House Together!
(Adventures of a Bipolar Mom) - Sometimes I really have to wonder if I don’t have ADHD!
World Mental Health Day: Human Nature and the Power of Our Stories
(Neuroscience and Relationships) - We are the creators of our stories, and at the same time, the stories we generate turn around to create our lives, and shape us in profound ways.
World Mental Health Day: Hah!
(Coming Out Crazy) - In honour of World Mental Health Day, I am reposting the first blog I wrote for Psych Central.
Mental Health Day: Lessons Learned from a Bipolar Dad
(Mental Health Humor) - I cannot help thinking “what IF’ my Father had access to information about Bipolar and Depression and Mental Health Disorders like we do today.
Mental Health Day: Self-Injury
(The Creative Mind) - It isn’t just actors or performers who engage in non-suicidal self-injury.
Like Kryptonite to Superman: In Honor of World Mental Health Day
(Bipolar Beat) - Some people feel as though the medications flat line them – as we say in Bipolar Disorder For Dummies, “Normal is boring.”
Mental Health Day: Suicide Protection Across Generations
(Healing Together for Couples) - The need to protect and care for each other may be a natural and powerful way to reduce suicide risk across generations.
World Mental Health Day: Living A Meaningful Life
(Weightless) - Thinness doesn’t buy meaning.
World Mental Health Day: A Cognitive Therapy Toolbox
(Real World Research) - Cognitive therapy has provided me a toolbox of useful techniques that work for nearly any mental or emotional jam I find myself in.
For World Mental Health Day: Reading What John Gottman Reads
(Always Learning) - Here are some of my favorite quotes from psychologist Dan Wile’s book, After the Honeymoon.
Mental Health Day: The Therapist Within
(The Therapist Within) - Perhaps it’s worth getting mentally meteorological and taking a look at what you’ll do when your weather changes.
Mental Health Day: Top 5 Celebrity Organization Efforts
(Celebrity Psychings) - These five celebrities are working hard to raise mental health awareness.
World Mental Health Day: I’ve Never Met A Shrink Who Didn’t Need One
(Private Practice Toolbox) - The most effective therapists I’ve worked with are those who’ve already worked through some of their own mental health struggles with a therapist.
Mental Health Day: Out From The Shadows
(Light, Laughter and Life) - In February of 2010, I wrote, out loud, about my bipolar.
World Mental Health Day: Partners in Wellness
(Partners in Wellness) - As the partner of someone with mental illness, you probably found your way here because you were looking for resources about how to handle your partner’s illness.
Mental Health Day: Are You Aware of Awareness?
(Panic About Anxiety) - We’re practically saturated in awareness of diseases and injustices…but are we doing anything about them?
Mental Health Day: The Salt Water Taffy Generation
(Mentoring and Recovery) - It is a great day to remember that we live in what I like to call the salt-water taffy generation.
Mental Health Day: Canadian Homelessness and Addictions (Video)
(Channel N) - Interview with a Vancouver, BC man who is homeless after completing a drug rehab program.
Mental Health Day: Thankfulness Regarding Mental Health Stigma
(ADHD Man of Distraction) - I’m thankful for the advances made by the mental health advocacy community, advances that have reduced the social stigma surrounding mental illness.
Mental Health Day Blog Party: Bringing Mindfulness to School
(Dialectical Behavior Therapy Understood) - Why mindfulness in schools?
Terrence Malick’s ‘The Tree of Life’: Consolation for the Grieving Process
(Movies and Mental Health) - This is a film that invites questions about “meaning” as well as the writer/director’s intent.
What’s Fair? The Medicare Crisis
(Aging Well) - It is just not fair to doctors or patients when money becomes the primary emotional currency that determines our interactions in medical encounters.
World Mental Health Day: A Patient Bill of Rights for Psychotropic Medications
(Anxiety and OCD Exposed) - A colleague of mine Dr. Antonuccio has had the gall to call for a Patient Bill of Rights for psychotropic medications.
Mental Health Day: Drawing From the Well
(ADHD from A to Zoë) - While appropriate treatment to support those struggling with mental health issues may not be available, we all share: sources for faith and inspiration.
Fly-Fishing & Bipolar: It’s Progress…Huge Progress
(Depression on My Mind) - People, I am here to tell you that I have made progress!
Mental Health Day: Borderline Personality Disorder: Email and Text Addiction with your Therapist
(Therapy Unplugged) - Emailing and texting your therapist can be (for some) more addictive than cigarettes, alcohol and drugs.
Pick a Finger to Boost Positivity
(Adventures in Positive Psychology) - It’s all too easy to fall back into thinking traps and automatic negative thoughts when life circumstances start bringing us down.
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Treating Chronic Depression With The Chronic / Marijuana
22. September 2011 by admin.
Medication bottle left: Yeah no self-medicating does nothing more than high the real problem!
Marijuana joint/pot: PROBLEM?? WHAT problem??? [Smiling]
Medication bottle right: {getting high off fumes}
Title: Treating Chronic Depression With The Chronic?
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Overmedicated - I CAN FLY
13. September 2011 by admin.
Medication Bottle: What worries me more isn’t that he thinks he can fly… But that it’s working!
Bottle #2: {{Flapping arms and flying}}
Title: Strange But Useful Medication Side-Effects
Over-medicated is happy to shine some light on some strange but useful mental health medication side effects. Here is a fun one, when taking meds you my feel you can fly… What is worst, that the medications can make you fly…. Hummmm? What do you think?
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The Embarrassment of Popping Pills
24. August 2011 by admin.
Pill Bottle: [Pooping Pills]
Title: The Embarrassment of Popping Pills
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Pet Therapy will Reduce Medications
17. August 2011 by admin.
Medication Bottle: (Running away and Screaming for help)
Title: How Billy’s Pet Therapy Helped Reduce His Medication.
This was going to be the cartoon for the cover of the 2011 calendar that was going to launch the Overmedicated cartoons series. I had the 12 cartoons, I did not the 5k need to make them or the time it would take to promote the calendar. So I put it on hold until I could do it right… That is why this cartoon has a copy right symbol on it… Just in case you were wondering.
Chato
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He was full of LIFE… Three to Four Times a day on an Empty Stomach
24. June 2011 by admin.
[ 2 bottles 1 in a coffin & the other standing next to him graving]
Bottle of SSRIs: He was full of LIFE… Three to Four Times a day on an Empty Stomach…
Caption: Sooner or Later Your Refills End…
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