Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

Open Sourcing Mental Illness - OSCON 2014

Sponsored · Your Podcast. Everywhere. Effortlessly. Share. Educate. Inspire. Entertain. You do you. We'll handle the rest. →
Avatar for funkatron funkatron
July 22, 2014
Programming
120
1

Open Sourcing Mental Illness - OSCON 2014

Video of presentation: http://j.mp/osmioscon14video

Avatar for funkatron

funkatron

July 22, 2014

More Decks by funkatron

See All by funkatron
Stronger Than Fear: Mental Health in the Developer Community 2023
Avatar for funkatron funkatron
0
290
Stronger Than Fear: Mental Health in the Developer Community
Avatar for funkatron funkatron
0
500
Stronger Than Fear: Mental Health in the Developer Community
Avatar for funkatron funkatron
0
220
How We Changed The World With Open Source - WordCampMSP 17
Avatar for funkatron funkatron
0
210
Stronger Than Fear: Mental Health in the Developer Community
Avatar for funkatron funkatron
0
120
Stronger Than Fear: Mental Health in the Developer Community
Avatar for funkatron funkatron
0
340
Stronger Than Fear: Mental Health in the Developer Community
Avatar for funkatron funkatron
0
150
Stronger Than Fear: Mental Health in the Developer Community
Avatar for funkatron funkatron
0
110
Grumpy and Funky Save the World
Avatar for funkatron funkatron
0
320

Other Decks in Programming

See All in Programming
わからない話を追いかけたら、プログラミング言語を作る側にいた
Avatar for ydah ydah
3
500
Japan Community Day at Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026: Learning Container Privilege Control by Building My Own Low-Level Container Runtime
Avatar for ternbusty ternbusty
1
150
夏だ！祭りだ！祭りとはドメインモデリングでは？
Avatar for ryugen04 ryugen04
0
260
属人化した知識を、 AIが辿れる地図にする
Avatar for PKSHA Technology（パークシャテクノロジー） pkshadeck
PRO
1
170
Go 1.27 における memory allocation の高速化
Avatar for ANDPAD inc andpad
0
170
【やさしく解説 設計編・中級 #4】ルールの寿命と、システムの年輪
Avatar for HideyukiKitao panda728
PRO
2
180
源内ハンズオン概要編
Avatar for Hideyuki Nagata hideg
0
170
Claude CodeとAgentCore Gatewayを繋ぐ際の認証認可 / Authentication and authorization when connecting Claude Code with AgentCore Gateway
Avatar for Har1101 har1101
2
270
Built Our Own Background Agent at LayerX
Avatar for LayerX layerx
PRO
10
5.4k
What's New in Android 2026
Avatar for Veronikapj veronikapj
0
260
仕様書を書く前にハーネスを作る - Agent Native開発は「探索を速く、判定を固く」
Avatar for Gota gotalab555
4
1.6k
PHP に部分適用が来るぞ！……ところで何それ？おいしいの？ #phpcon / phpcon-2026
Avatar for shogogg shogogg
0
640

Featured

See All Featured
The #1 spot is gone: here's how to win anyway
Avatar for Tamara Novitovic tamaranovitovic
3
1.1k
Documentation Writing (for coders)
Avatar for Carmen Chung carmenintech
77
5.4k
Embracing the Ebb and Flow
Avatar for Simon Collison colly
88
5.1k
Let's Do A Bunch of Simple Stuff to Make Websites Faster
Avatar for Chris Coyier chriscoyier
508
140k
Hiding What from Whom? A Critical Review of the History of Programming languages for Music
Avatar for Tomoya Matsuura tomoyanonymous
3
1.1k
Have SEOs Ruined the Internet? - User Awareness of SEO in 2025
Avatar for Akash Hashmi akashhashmi
0
410
A brief & incomplete history of 
UX Design for the World Wide Web: 1989–2019
Avatar for Jason CranfordTeague jct
2
460
We Have a Design System, Now What?
Avatar for Morgane Peng morganepeng
55
8.3k
Max Prin - Stacking Signals: How International SEO Comes Together (And Falls Apart)
Avatar for Tech SEO Connect techseoconnect
PRO
0
400
DBのスキルで生き残る技術 - AI時代におけるテーブル設計の勘所
Avatar for soudai sone soudai
PRO
68
56k
Why Our Code Smells
Avatar for Brandon Keepers bkeepers
PRO
340
58k
How to Build an AI Search Optimization Roadmap - Criteria and Steps to Take #SEOIRL
Avatar for Aleyda Solis aleyda
1
2.1k

Transcript

  1. Open Sourcing Mental Illness Ed Finkler @funkatron • funkatron.com fictivekin.com

    OSCON 2014

  2. Who I am

  3. An informal survey

  4. How it affects us

  5. 1 in 5

  6. Level of disability

  7. Disease burden

  8. My diagnoses

  9. Generalized Anxiety Disorder

  10. Adult ADD

  11. Meds I take

  12. Lexapro Buspar Strattera Klonopin

  13. I see a therapist

  14. What it’s like

  15. We don’t “present” as sick

  16. Anxiety

  17. Intensity of emotion

  18. Problems focusing

  19. Spiraling chains of thought

  20. Obsessing on negative events

  21. Feeling alone/unlike anyone else

  22. I'm broken and I will never be right

  23. Suicidal thoughts and self-mutilation

  24. None

  25. We cannot stay silent http://www.actupny.org/reports/silencedeath.html

  26. As a developer

  27. Positives

  28. Interviewing

  29. Managers & Bosses

  30. Making your workplace safe

  31. Sick workers don’t work

  32. 41%

  33. 8 years

  34. Peers help

  35. Mental Health First Aid mentalhealthfirstaid.org info@mentalhealthfirstaid.org 202.684.3736

  36. I need your help. Talk. Share. Learn. prompt.engineyard.com osmihelp.org mentalhealthfirstaid.org

  37. Office Hours: Burgerville @ 3:20pm

  38. Thank you for listening funkatron.com/osmi • osmihelp.org