Open Sourcing Mental Illness - PyTennesee 2014

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1. Open Sourcing Mental Illness Ed Finkler @funkatron • funkatron.com fictivekin.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. Anxiety
10. Intensity of emotion
11. Problems focusing
12. Spiraling chains of thought
13. Obsessing on negative events
14. Feeling alone/unlike anyone else
15. I'm broken and I will never be right
16. Suicidal thoughts and self-mutilation
17. This will kill you one way or another
18. Anxiety and depression raise mortality rate http://www.newrepublic.com/article/ 113176/science-loneliness-how- isolation-can-kill-you
19. “Depression is the worst disease you can get” http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=NOAgplgTxfc
21. We cannot stay silent http://www.actupny.org/reports/silencedeath.html
22. As a developer
23. Positives
24. Working with teams
25. Conferences & Community
26. Techniques
27. Most of us self-medicate
28. Therapy
29. Medicine
30. Avoidance of triggers
31. Crying
32. Finding comfort
33. Helping friends & coworkers
34. Empathy Empathy Empathy
35. Help them feel safe
36. Acknowledge their frustration
37. Change is terrifying
38. Encourage & enable them to seek help
39. Mental Health First Aid www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org
40. I need your help. Talk. Share. Learn. funkatron.com/osmi prompt.engineyard.com
41. Thank you for listening funkatron.com/osmi