Walk for Mental Health Awareness – Mental Health Heroes
I got the month off on the right foot, drawing 11 heroes and their children at my local NAMI walk. I wrote about this day in my post entitled: Mental Health Matters – Mental Health Heroes.
I was honored once again to have this blog post mentioned on Psych Central’s World of Psychology blog: Best of Our Blogs: May 10, 2011 (May 10, 2011).
Thank You for the most successful Cartoon-a-Thon for Mental Health Heroes! I want to THANK all our heroes for their bravery in telling their mental health recovery stories for Mental Health Awareness Month! I also must mention their bravery for letting me try to draw their caricatures.
The month’s total was 34 Mental Health Heroes drawn with a huge push from May 30th (starting at noon Memorial Day) till May 31st at 11:30PM – during which I drew the last 10 Heroes. Yes, I got a little behind when I flew to Texas for the DBSA conference and comedy show… I’ll tell you more about that later.
Here are this year’s Mental Health Month’s cartoon-a-thon Mental Health Heroes!!!
Dr. Deborah Serani 2011 Mental Health Hero Cartoon-A-Thon by Chato Stewart
As a young girl, I always felt this looming sense of sadness. I remember feeling tired and sullen a good deal of the time when I was in school. These feelings didn’t get much better when I was at home either.
Like Eeyore, the glum little donkey from the Hundred Acre Wood, I was known as a sad-sack to friends and family. Unaware of what depression was or how to detect it, I descended into a Major Depressive Episode by the time I was in college.
Joel Sax 2011 Mental Health Hero Cartoon-A-Thon by Chato Stewart
One morning in 1994, I woke up at the crack of dawn and told my wife “I am sick.” For years I avoided taking medications for my depression and anxiety. But there was this drug called Prozac and I was willing to give it a try. It cured me instantly.
11 years later, I texted my wife with my last will and testament, then agreed to check into a hospital where I promptly berated the staff for not delivering my diabetes meds on schedule. My doctor asked “Has anyone told you that you might be bipolar?”
Today I run Bipolar_Blogs on Twitter & Pax Nortona at http://paxnortona.notfrisco2.com/.
My wife and I have decided that I will not accept Social Security as long as there are others who need it more.
Nanci Schiman 2011 Mental Health Hero Cartoon-A-Thon by Chato Stewart
Hi Chato, Thank you for spotlighting so many great people as mental health heroes!
My story is not just about me, but about my family and the ways we’ve been affected by mental illness. I’ll start with my kids because my most important role is helping them to achieve and maintain wellness independently.
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