Medication Bottle:¹

Title: How Billy’s Pet Therapy Helped Reduce His Medication.

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Chato’s NEW cartoon series: Over-Medicated!
Started in 2011: this new cartoon series opens the doors of medicine cabinets world-wide! For the first time, the antics of the medicine bottles are revealed. 

1. Running away and Screaming for help [↩]

Fix A Flat – Fix A Mood Beer

For Temporary Use Only

I was working with my new therapist a few weeks back when we both made jokes about fix-a-flat. The end joke was the cartoon above on how to fix-a-mood!

While many people often use alcohol and/or other illegal mood-altering drugs to self-medicate, I want to make it CLEAR that I “personally” don’t condone this type of  temporary solution. Now, I’m not a prude who says to NEVER self-medicate, since I’ve done it myself in the past and it may seem like an “easy” solution, but it really doesn’t solve anything and can make more problems in the long haul!

Did you play “Red Rover, Red Rover” as a child?  I know I did!  If you are not sure what this game is then this cartoon will make no sense to you.  Let me explain the rule of the game… Umm, no, let me summarize it instead.  Two groups of children on opposing sides form a wall linking their hands.  Then one calls someone on the other side to run through the wall yelling… RED ROVER…RED ROVER… send (name) right over! If they can’t break the link, then they become part of the opposing wall.

Well back in late January, I got an e-mail from one of my readers asking if I can “create a cartoon that says “Bipolar, Bipolar..let Sanity come over.” I got that from the child’s game. “Red Rover, Red Rover…let Susie come over.“  I told this reader (who asked to be anonymous) that I will try… I was not sure how to convey this reader’s concept, so I mixed it up and ADDED my own twist including a huge ProZac Pill. 

We live in a time where there seems to be a pill for everything… One to medicate if you can’t sleep and one to medicate so you can stay up.  From pain to happiness there is a pill! I wonder, are we living in an OVER medicated world? What are your thoughts on this subject?

Continued from Which Came First — Obesity or Depression?? [Part 1]

Let’s see, before I was depressed I was a big guy…but was that because I was depressed and did not know it?!  Since Ive been taking my meds, I’ve put on weight… In 2001, I weighed in at 230.  I got help late in 2003 and now in 2010, I maxed out at 383lbs.

Yes, I have been treating my depression and yes, I’m also dealing with Metabolic Syndrome. So, could controlling my Depression (by using various medications) in actuality be “causing” Obesity and Obesity-related diseases; not eliminating them?!