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 - PyTennesee 2014
Search
funkatron
February 22, 2014
1
120
Open Sourcing Mental Illness - PyTennesee 2014
Learn more:
http://funkatron.com/osmi
funkatron
February 22, 2014
Tweet
Share
More Decks by funkatron
See All by funkatron
Stronger Than Fear: Mental Health in the Developer Community 2023
funkatron
0
250
Stronger Than Fear: Mental Health in the Developer Community
funkatron
0
440
Stronger Than Fear: Mental Health in the Developer Community
funkatron
0
180
How We Changed The World With Open Source - WordCampMSP 17
funkatron
0
140
Stronger Than Fear: Mental Health in the Developer Community
funkatron
0
88
Stronger Than Fear: Mental Health in the Developer Community
funkatron
0
270
Stronger Than Fear: Mental Health in the Developer Community
funkatron
0
110
Stronger Than Fear: Mental Health in the Developer Community
funkatron
0
72
Grumpy and Funky Save the World
funkatron
0
260
Featured
See All Featured
個人開発の失敗を避けるイケてる考え方 / tips for indie hackers
panda_program
114
20k
Practical Orchestrator
shlominoach
190
11k
RailsConf 2023
tenderlove
30
1.2k
Build your cross-platform service in a week with App Engine
jlugia
232
18k
Building a Scalable Design System with Sketch
lauravandoore
463
33k
How to Ace a Technical Interview
jacobian
280
24k
Rails Girls Zürich Keynote
gr2m
95
14k
Speed Design
sergeychernyshev
32
1.2k
The MySQL Ecosystem @ GitHub 2015
samlambert
251
13k
The Art of Delivering Value - GDevCon NA Keynote
reverentgeek
15
1.7k
Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design
aarron
274
41k
Visualizing Your Data: Incorporating Mongo into Loggly Infrastructure
mongodb
48
9.7k
Transcript
Open Sourcing Mental Illness Ed Finkler @funkatron • funkatron.com fictivekin.com
Who I am
My Diagnoses
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Adult ADD
Meds I take
Lexapro Buspar Strattera Klonopin
What it’s like
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
This will kill you one way or another
Anxiety and depression raise mortality rate http://www.newrepublic.com/article/ 113176/science-loneliness-how- isolation-can-kill-you
“Depression is the worst disease you can get” http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=NOAgplgTxfc
None
We cannot stay silent http://www.actupny.org/reports/silencedeath.html
As a developer
Positives
Working with teams
Conferences & Community
Techniques
Most of us self-medicate
Therapy
Medicine
Avoidance of triggers
Crying
Finding comfort
Helping friends & coworkers
Empathy Empathy Empathy
Help them feel safe
Acknowledge their frustration
Change is terrifying
Encourage & enable them to seek help
Mental Health First Aid www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org
I need your help. Talk. Share. Learn. funkatron.com/osmi prompt.engineyard.com
Thank you for listening funkatron.com/osmi