This “Hairline” post is a continuation of a ten post series to highlight the Webinar titled Loving Your Special Someone with a Psychological Disorder (“Loving Someone with Bipolar”). My idea behind these posts simple:
Loving Bipolar Lost | Loving Bipolar Cow | Loving Bipolar Cosmic | Loving Bipolar Shovel | Loving Bipolar Proposal Proposal | Loving Bipolar Shovel | Loving Bipolar Depression | Loving Bipolar Hairline | Loving Bipolar Medication | Loving Bipolar Again
- It is a way to celebrate and share with my readers–my wife, Joan Winifred, and myself, Chato Stewart, our Silver 25th anniversary!
- It is a way to tell the severe traumatic story in a comic fun cartoon style which allows peers to relate not only just to our words but to the cartoons/illustrations. (A picture is worth a thousand words so they say.) And maybe some can relate better to the story found in the cartoons.
- Chato’s Notes will give you more info on each cartoon, kind of a bonus behind the scenes for the cartoons.
Neither Joan nor I give marital advice; we are not relationship doctors. We are a couple with lived-experience sharing what worked for us. Hopefully, if a peer can relate to something in the webinar as to what is said, read, or seen…and finds it helpful, great!
This webinar might seem like a happy and fluffy-bunny style love story. At first!
If you can read between the lines, you’ll start to see a new dialog. If a picture is worth a thousand words (in this case a lot of cartoons), then this webinar has tens of thousands of words (a bunch of cartoon illustrations may say more than Joan or I do about our not so fluffy parts of Bipolar or Bipolar Depression affecting our relationship.). A much deeper story is exposed, and it is raw. It is scary, at times, and it tells two sides (the light and the dark)
Chato Says:
This Family Stew shows Joan Winifred’s head spinning, “What is going on?!? That may be what a couple might feel when they discover their loved one’s moods and behavior is going so wakadoodle.
When you are not sure why the person is acting strange, saying hurtful things, becoming mean and irritate and belligerent and loving and compassionate the next minute… terms like walking on eggshells, and avoiding the ticking time-bomb are used to describe conversations. When you can relate to being married to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde better than the marriage mate you married…wow.
What was going on? It was years of untreated, undiagnosed mental illness, bipolar depression and mania. It can take a toll on a marriage and a hairline.
This is part of the story in a Webinar titled: Loving Your Special Someone with a Psychological Disorder. Hosted by Zoe.
Mental Health Humor and psychological disorder humor and cartoons by Chato Stewart
Here is a cartoon that you’ll see only in the Webinar:
Mental Health Humor and psychological disorder humor and cartoons by Chato Stewart.
(Years of untreated depression can change a hairline.)
Loving Bipolar Lost | Loving Bipolar Cow | Loving Bipolar Cosmic | Loving Bipolar Shovel | Loving Bipolar Proposal Proposal | Loving Bipolar Shovel | Loving Bipolar Depression | Loving Bipolar Hairline | Loving Bipolar Medication | Loving Bipolar Again