Open Sourcing Mental Illness - Madison Ruby 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 Buspar Strattera Klonopin
8. What it’s like
9. Intensity of emotion http://j.mp/killbillsiren
10. Anxiety
11. Problems focusing
12. Spiraling chains of thought
13. Obsessing on negative events
14. Unwanted thoughts
15. Feeling alone/unlike anyone else
16. I'm broken and I will never be right
17. Suicidal thoughts and self-mutilation
18. This will kill you one way or another
19. Anxiety and depression raise mortality rate http://www.newrepublic.com/article/ 113176/science-loneliness-how- isolation-can-kill-you
20. “Depression is the worst disease you can get” http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=NOAgplgTxfc
22. As a developer
23. Positives
24. Working with teams
25. Conferences & Community
26. Helping friends & coworkers
27. Empathy Empathy Empathy
28. Help them feel safe
29. Acknowledge their frustration
30. Change is terrifying
31. Encourage & enable them to seek help
32. Want to help? Talk and share funkatron.com/osmi prompt.engineyard.com
33. Thank you for listening