Open Sourcing Mental Illness

Talk given at php|tek 13

Transcript

1. Open Sourcing Mental Illness Ed Finkler @funkatron • funkatron.com
2. Who I am
3. My Diagnonses
4. Generalized Anxiety Disorder
5. Adult ADD
6. Meds I take
7. Lexapro
8. Buspar
9. Strattera
10. Klonopin
11. What it’s like
12. Intensity of emotion http://j.mp/killbillsiren
13. Anxiety
14. Problems focusing
15. Spiraling chains of thought
16. Obsessing on negative events
17. Unwanted thoughts
18. Feeling alone/unlike anyone else
19. I'm broken and I will never be right
20. Suicidal thoughts and self-mutilation
21. As a developer
22. Working with teams
23. interacting with users
24. IRC & forums
25. Conferences & Community
26. Techniques
27. Most of us self-medicate
28. Therapy
29. Medicine
30. Exercise
31. Meditation
32. Light
33. Avoidance of triggers
34. Crying
35. Finding comfort
36. Helping friends & coworkers
37. Help them feel safe
38. Frustration
39. Change
40. Resources
41. ๏ 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
42. ๏ Mental Illness Happy Hour (http://mentalpod.com/) ๏ http://mentalpod.com/forum/
43. Thank you for listening