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chatobstewart — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:48:16 +0000

Words Of The Wisdomless: Surprise -

“Each day I am surprised by the power of the human spirit to be able to share compassion, kindness and love. What surprises me the most is, that it always comes from places you never expect… Yes, I’m talking about you.”

- By Chato B. Stewart

Words Of The Wisdomless: Hope? -

chatobstewart — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:16:23 +0000

Words Of The Wisdomless: Hope? -

“Never, Never Ever, Give up HOPE! Hope for a good today and a better tomorrow. Hope that my wellness plan works! Hope that my meds work. Hope that I can avoid my triggers. Hope that my symptoms won’t interfere with my life.

Hope that if I get mad someone won’t immediately point out that it must be due to my meds or due to my mental illness! Ya… HOPE!!…”

- By Chato B. Stewart

Words Of The Wisdomless: Street

chatobstewart — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:18:40 +0000

Words Of The Wisdomless: Street Walker –

If you make one step today toward your goals then, that is one step closer to reaching your goal. But, if your goal is just to cross the street then, a few extra steps won’t hurt.

- By Chato B Stewart

Words Of The Wisdomless: Zealous Advocate

chatobstewart — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:57:42 +0000

Words Of The Wisdomless: Zealous Advocate -

“The pain and horror of my life might seem minimal to you but you can’t walk in my shoes. You haven’t traversed the obstacles of madness or stood at the ready over the abyss. Validation or none, I am a survivor over madness, finding my recovery and no one can take it away from me… Oh! I’m sorry, I misunderstood you. Yes, I’ll have fries with that.”

- Chato B. Stewart

Words Of The Wisdomless: Self- Medicated -

chatobstewart — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:38:49 +0000

Words Of The Wisdomless: Self- Medicated – part 2

“I was depressed, they gave me a beer. I was manic, they gave me a beer. I was enraged they gave me a beer. I was seeing things, they gave me a beer. I felt ugly they gave me a beer. Now I’m not depressed, manic or mad! I’m handsome and you look good too. “

- By Chato B. Stewart

Words Of The Wisdomless: Self- Medicated

chatobstewart — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:33:59 +0000

Words Of The Wisdomless: Self- Medicated –

“I was depressed, they gave me a pill. I was manic, they gave me a pill. I was enraged they gave me a pill. I was seeing things, they gave me a pill. Yet, when I felt ugly they gave me a bottle of beer. Now I’m handsome and you look good too. “

- By Chato B. Stewart

Words Of The Wisdomless: Goals

chatobstewart — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:00:53 +0000

Words Of The Wisdomless: Goals -

“I’ve Set my mind to accomplish my goals… But my mind keeps hitting the snooze button.”

- By Chato B. Stewart

Words Of The Wisdomless: Goals

chatobstewart — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:00:53 +0000

Words Of The Wisdomless: Goals -

“I’ve Set my mind to accomplish my goals… But my mind keeps hitting the snooze button.”

- By Chato B. Stewart

Words Of The Widsomless: Agoraphobia

chatobstewart — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:57:28 +0000

Words Of The Widsomless: Agoraphobia

“Every day we should get out and do something! So, I thought I would visit my imagination today, but I forgot where he lived.”

- By Chato B Stewart

UPdate On Chato and The Cartoon-a-thon 20K Unique Hits

chatobstewart — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:35:57 +0000

Hey everyone! I just want to THANK everyone for your support (both morale and financial) with the Cartoon-A-Thon. It has been so much fun drawing the cartoons.

The fundraiser site has 25 new cartoons and has had 22,080 Unique Visits in the last 30 days! With 54,661 Page Views!

We hit our goal for the the site’s exposure. I had no doubt about that…I just knew it would be another story with the funds. Right now, we have been able to raise $239.00 which is a great effort in these hard economic times. As I said, 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.

Please help us out and make a pledge now.

And we have already put the funds to good use. On May 16, I was able to be part of a NAMI Walk-A-Thon and was able to meet a lot of great people on the providers side of mental health. On the 20th, I did my first mental health presentation at a local Drop-in center.

Here is what the director of the drop-in center sent to us:

“Chato’s presentation today at the Haven was very effective and well received. He is a wonderful presenter and teacher and mentor. He knew how to reach even the least recovered. He was especially effective with those of us who have relapsed and gone on to re-recover if that’s a word. I recommend him highly to do more of these. I’ve signed him up for July 1rst. He is a gem!” Sincerely, AW

This week, I’ll be talking to the director of the local Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU)
to bring the program to help with the adjustment to life after receiving Mental Health Services.

And we will be establishing a local DBSA group, too. A lot of things going on so, you can see why we are looking for some private funding. I wish we could get a grant but the Florida Non-profit budget has been cut so much and so many hands for so many different services. I feel bad for the people who have to split it up.

We have always been a grass roots project and myself and the person I’m volunteering with want to keep it like that for as long as possible…It helps cut the red tape, I guess.

Anyway, I just wanted to bring you all up-to-date and ask you to keep up the “awesome” support you all are giving me and the silly cartoons!

Chato

Oh, I also am working on losing weight. The meds have helped to do what they do best… I am now at 380LBS and that is it! I stopped drinking soda 3 weeks ago. 2 weeks ago, I switched the coffee to White Tea and last week, I started using digestive enzymes to help my meds from killing my metabolic rate.

Well, I have seen a big differance but it’s only a drop in the bucket…My goal is to drop 10 or more lbs a month. In a few weeks, I’ll start adding long walks… I’m just going at my own pace right now.