Open Sourcing Mental Illness - True North PHP

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1. Open Sourcing
   Mental Illness
   Ed Finkler
   @funkatron • funkatron.com
   

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2. Who I am
   

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3. My Diagnoses
   

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4. Generalized Anxiety
   Disorder
   

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5. Adult ADD
   

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6. Meds I take
   

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7. Lexapro
   Buspar
   Strattera
   Klonopin
   

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8. What it’s like
   

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9. Intensity of emotion
   http://j.mp/killbillsiren
   

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10. Anxiety
    

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11. Problems focusing
    

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12. Spiraling chains
    of thought
    

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13. Obsessing on
    negative events
    

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14. Unwanted thoughts
    

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15. Feeling alone/unlike
    anyone else
    

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16. I'm broken and
    I will never be right
    

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17. Suicidal thoughts and
    self-mutilation
    

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18. This will kill you
    one way or another
    

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19. Anxiety and depression
    raise mortality rate
    http://www.newrepublic.com/article/
    113176/science-loneliness-how-
    isolation-can-kill-you
    

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20. “Depression is the worst
    disease you can get”
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?
    v=NOAgplgTxfc
    

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22. As a developer
    

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23. Positives
    

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24. Working with teams
    

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25. Conferences &
    Community
    

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26. Techniques
    

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27. Most of us
    self-medicate
    

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28. Therapy
    

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29. Cognitive Behavior
    Therapy
    

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30. Medicine
    

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31. Exercise
    

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32. Meditation
    

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33. Light
    

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34. Avoidance of triggers
    

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35. Crying
    

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36. Finding comfort
    

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37. Helping friends & coworkers
    

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38. Empathy
    Empathy
    Empathy
    

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39. Help them feel safe
    

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40. Acknowledge their
    frustration
    

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41. Change is terrifying
    

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42. Encourage & enable
    them to seek help
    

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43. Resources
    

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44. ๏ 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
    

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45. ๏ 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/
    

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46. One More Thing
    

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47. Want to help?
    Talk and share
    funkatron.com/osmi
    prompt.engineyard.com
    

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48. Thank you for listening
    https://joind.in/9988
    

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