Dr.Rick Nauert PhD Senior News Editor here at Psych Central recently wrote about a Rat Study Suggests New Explanation for How Depression Works. I wondered if he heard anything about  the study of Permanent Press Therapy and the Steam Study?  The study Suggests a New Explanation for the cause of Anxiety.

My emails were not immediately returned.

Sign: Steam Study Suggests New Explanation for the cause of Anxiety!Caption: Permanent Press Therapy

Chato’s Cartoon Notes:
I had the caption for this cartoon and then changed it 2 times. The first was just the cartoon with a caption “rage against the washing machine.”  While I thought it was clever and okay, it did not make me laugh out loud.  I’ve been sitting on the cartoon for the last few days, until I read Dr. Rick Nauert PhD “Rat Study Suggests” post.  That’s when I thought up the fake permanent Press therapy.   

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Facebook Friend Suggested It and Chato Stewart Drew It -

For this Sunday Silly, I asked my Facebook friends to give me 3 concepts for our Sunday silly cartoon based on the three following ideas:

1. How you feel right now: Dorothy suggested -  Sad ( *Seasonal affective disorder)

2. What bugs you right now: Tracy L of Emotional CPR suggested  “sick of waking up to 30 degree weather”

3. Your favorite cartoon character. Kelly C and Kathy B both suggest “Winnie The Pooh Characters”

Today’s Sunday Silly is a mix of suggestions but i think they all worked well together!

SAD Tigger: Do you have any Meds?Eeyore: <sad look on his face>
Caption: Tiggers do not bounce with seasonal affective disorder

  * here are a few Psych Central posts you should read about S.A.D

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Mental Health Humor Cartoon by Chato Stewart

Title: Mental Health History:  Why is it the more you need help…
Sign 1: Year 1 – 1 Diagnosis – 1 medication – but InsuredSign 2: Year 3 – 3 Diagnoses – 3 medications – COBRA Ins.Sign 3: Year 6 – 4 Diagnoses – 5 medications – Lost InsuranceSign 4: Year 10 – 6 Diagnoses – 12 medications – Broke!Caption: The less money YOU have

Our “mental health history” can be very simple or extremely complicated. Each person has different psychological and biological make-up that includes our background and life experiences that together make-up a full history. Diagnosing and the successful treatment of depression, bipolar disorder or the host of other “mental illnesses” sometimes is trial and error. For me, it was not hard to get into the ball-park for my diagnosis as bipolar.

The problem was nailing it down. See I started out as Bipolar Depressed, then to Rapid Cycling then to mix state then back to bipolar 2…Over the last 10 years, I’ve been labeled with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), bipolar II disorder — also known as manic depression,Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), Seasonal affective disorder (SAD), Major depressive disorder (MDD, deliberate self-harm (DSH) includes self-injury (SI), and Binge eating disorder (BED).

It was even hinted to me that I could have Borderline personality disorder (BPD) and schizo-affective disorder. The problem is with EACH NEW Therapist, Doctor and Psychologist, I saw came with an updated diagnosis. Am I alone in this?? Nope!  Here is the experience of my Friend and Facebook pal, Kristi Goldsberry, CPSS, ITE Peer Support Specialist:

I was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder at the age of 31 in the midst of a full blown manic episode for which I was hospitalized for a month. I had known for a while that something was wrong, and had made appointments with psychiatrists a couple of times after one of my “weird” episodes. But when I …

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