Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Open Sourcing Mental Illness - OSCON 2014
Search
funkatron
July 22, 2014
Programming
1
100
Open Sourcing Mental Illness - OSCON 2014
Video of presentation:
http://j.mp/osmioscon14video
funkatron
July 22, 2014
Tweet
Share
More Decks by funkatron
See All by funkatron
Stronger Than Fear: Mental Health in the Developer Community 2023
funkatron
0
120
Stronger Than Fear: Mental Health in the Developer Community
funkatron
0
310
Stronger Than Fear: Mental Health in the Developer Community
funkatron
0
140
How We Changed The World With Open Source - WordCampMSP 17
funkatron
0
78
Stronger Than Fear: Mental Health in the Developer Community
funkatron
0
57
Stronger Than Fear: Mental Health in the Developer Community
funkatron
0
200
Stronger Than Fear: Mental Health in the Developer Community
funkatron
0
72
Stronger Than Fear: Mental Health in the Developer Community
funkatron
0
58
Grumpy and Funky Save the World
funkatron
0
140
Other Decks in Programming
See All in Programming
冗長なエラーログを削減し、スタックトレースを手に入れる / Reducing Verbose Error Logs and Obtaining Stack Traces
upamune
0
950
Git Rebase
bkuhlmann
11
1.6k
Code Reviews
bkuhlmann
4
890
デフォルトにして至高、RubyMineの大好きな所
ruzia
0
630
使ってみよう Azure AI Document Intelligence
kosmosebi
2
350
Sheets API使ってみた
toshi0383
2
150
R言語の環境構築と基礎 Tokyo.R 112
bob3bob3
0
270
2 週間で Twitter Bot を作ってみた
contour_gara
0
740
Try creating your own orderedmap
kazamori
1
150
はてなにおける CSS Modules、及び CSS Modules に足りないもの / CSS Modules in Hatena, and CSS Modules missing parts
mizdra
7
960
TCAとKMPを用いた新規動画配信アプリ 「ABEMA Live」の設計
tomu28
2
120
Elm 0.19.0 Changes
bkuhlmann
0
490
Featured
See All Featured
Robots, Beer and Maslow
schacon
PRO
155
7.9k
The MySQL Ecosystem @ GitHub 2015
samlambert
244
12k
It's Worth the Effort
3n
180
27k
Fontdeck: Realign not Redesign
paulrobertlloyd
76
4.9k
Automating Front-end Workflow
addyosmani
1357
200k
I Don’t Have Time: Getting Over the Fear to Launch Your Podcast
jcasabona
22
1.6k
Designing with Data
zakiwarfel
96
4.8k
Templates, Plugins, & Blocks: Oh My! Creating the theme that thinks of everything
marktimemedia
20
1.7k
How to Ace a Technical Interview
jacobian
273
22k
10 Git Anti Patterns You Should be Aware of
lemiorhan
649
58k
Optimizing for Happiness
mojombo
370
69k
Creatively Recalculating Your Daily Design Routine
revolveconf
211
11k
Transcript
Open Sourcing Mental Illness Ed Finkler @funkatron • funkatron.com fictivekin.com
OSCON 2014
Who I am
An informal survey
How it affects us
1 in 5
Level of disability
Disease burden
My diagnoses
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Adult ADD
Meds I take
Lexapro Buspar Strattera Klonopin
I see a therapist
What it’s like
We don’t “present” as sick
Anxiety
Intensity of emotion
Problems focusing
Spiraling chains of thought
Obsessing on negative events
Feeling alone/unlike anyone else
I'm broken and I will never be right
Suicidal thoughts and self-mutilation
None
We cannot stay silent http://www.actupny.org/reports/silencedeath.html
As a developer
Positives
Interviewing
Managers & Bosses
Making your workplace safe
Sick workers don’t work
41%
8 years
Peers help
Mental Health First Aid mentalhealthfirstaid.org info@mentalhealthfirstaid.org 202.684.3736
I need your help. Talk. Share. Learn. prompt.engineyard.com osmihelp.org mentalhealthfirstaid.org
Office Hours: Burgerville @ 3:20pm
Thank you for listening funkatron.com/osmi • osmihelp.org