Open Sourcing Mental Illness - Lone Star PHP 2013

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1. Open Sourcing Mental Illness Ed Finkler @funkatron • funkatron.com
2. Who I am
3. My Diagnoses
4. Generalized Anxiety Disorder
5. Adult ADD
6. Meds I take
7. Lexapro
8. Buspar
9. Strattera
10. Klonopin
11. What it’s like
12. Intensity of emotion http://j.mp/killbillsiren
13. Anxiety
14. Problems focusing
15. Spiraling chains of thought
16. Obsessing on negative events
17. Unwanted thoughts
18. Feeling alone/unlike anyone else
19. I'm broken and I will never be right
20. Suicidal thoughts and self-mutilation
22. As a developer
23. Positives
24. Working with teams
25. Interacting with users
26. IRC & forums
27. Conferences & Community
28. Techniques
29. Most of us self-medicate
30. Therapy
31. Medicine
32. Exercise
33. Meditation
34. Light
35. Avoidance of triggers
36. Crying
37. Finding comfort
38. Helping friends & coworkers
39. Help them feel safe
40. Frustration
41. Change
42. Resources
43. ๏ http://helpguide.org/ ๏ http://www.devpressed.com/ ๏ http://nami.org ๏ http://bit.ly/namilocal ๏ Hope For The Day (http://htfd.org) ๏ http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/ ๏ http://www.nimh.nih.gov
44. ๏ http://www.patientslikeme.com/ ๏ https://www.moodscope.com/ ๏ https://www.superbetter.com/ ๏ Mental Illness Happy Hour (http://mentalpod.com/) ๏ http://mentalpod.com/forum/
45. Two more things https://joind.in/8689 3:30pm in Open Spaces: BlueHackers BoF
46. Thank you for listening