Open Sourcing Mental Illness - Seattle PHP

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