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

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Who I am

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An informal survey

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My Diagnoses

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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Adult ADD

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Meds I take

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Lexapro Buspar Strattera Klonopin

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What it’s like

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Anxiety

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Intensity of emotion

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Problems focusing

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Spiraling chains of thought

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Obsessing on negative events

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Feeling alone/unlike anyone else

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I'm broken and I will never be right

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Suicidal thoughts and self-mutilation

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This will kill you one way or another

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

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

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We cannot stay silent http://www.actupny.org/reports/silencedeath.html

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As a developer

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Positives

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Working with teams

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Conferences & Community

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Techniques

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Most of us self-medicate

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Therapy

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Medicine

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Avoidance of triggers

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Crying

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Finding comfort

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Helping friends & coworkers

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Empathy Empathy Empathy

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Help them feel safe

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Acknowledge their frustration

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Change is terrifying

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Encourage & enable them to seek help

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Mental Health First Aid www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org

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I need your help. Talk. Share. Learn. funkatron.com/osmi prompt.engineyard.com

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Thank you for listening funkatron.com/osmi