Open Sourcing Mental Illness - OSCON 2013

Slides of the Open Sourcing Mental Illness talk I gave at OSCON 2013 #oscon

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
21. This shit will kill you one way or another
22. Anxiety and depression raise mortality rate http://www.newrepublic.com/article/ 113176/science-loneliness-how- isolation-can-kill-you
23. “Depression is the worst disease you can get” http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=NOAgplgTxfc
25. As a developer
26. Positives
27. Working with teams
28. Conferences & Community
29. Techniques
30. Most of us self-medicate
31. Therapy
32. Cognitive Behavior Therapy
33. Medicine
34. Exercise
35. Meditation
36. Light
37. Avoidance of triggers
38. Crying
39. Finding comfort
40. Helping friends & coworkers
41. Help them feel safe
42. Acknowledge their frustration
43. Change is terrifying
44. Resources
45. ๏ 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
46. ๏ http://www.patientslikeme.com/ ๏ https://www.moodscope.com/ ๏ https://www.superbetter.com/ ๏ http://BlueHackers.org ๏ Mental Illness Happy Hour (http://mentalpod.com/) ๏ http://mentalpod.com/forum/
47. Want to help? Talk and share funkatron.com/osmi
48. End the stigma
49. Thank you for listening