Open Sourcing Mental Illness - SkiPHP 2014

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1. Open Sourcing Mental Illness Ed Finkler @funkatron • funkatron.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. Intensity of emotion http://j.mp/killbillsiren
10. Anxiety
11. Problems focusing
12. Spiraling chains of thought
13. Obsessing on negative events
14. Unwanted thoughts
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. As a developer
23. Positives
24. Working with teams
25. Conferences & Community
26. Techniques
27. Most of us self-medicate
28. Therapy
29. Cognitive Behavior Therapy
30. Medicine
31. Exercise
32. Meditation
33. Light
34. Avoidance of triggers
35. Crying
36. Finding comfort
37. Helping friends & coworkers
38. Empathy Empathy Empathy
39. Help them feel safe
40. Acknowledge their frustration
41. Change is terrifying
42. Encourage & enable them to seek help
43. Mental Health First Aid www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org
44. Resources
45. ๏ http://helpguide.org/ ๏ http://www.devpressed.com/ ๏ http://nami.org ๏ http://bit.ly/namilocal ๏ Hope For The Day (http://htfd.org) ๏ http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/ ๏ http://www.nimh.nih.gov
46. ๏ http://www.patientslikeme.com/ ๏ https://www.moodscope.com/ ๏ https://www.superbetter.com/ ๏ http://BlueHackers.org ๏ Mental Illness Happy Hour (http://mentalpod.com/) ๏ http://mentalpod.com/forum/
47. One More Thing
48. Want to help? Talk and share funkatron.com/osmi prompt.engineyard.com
49. Thank you for listening https://joind.in/10457