Open Sourcing Mental Illness - Madison Ruby 2013

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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

21. None

22. As a developer

23. Positives

24. Working with teams

25. Conferences & Community

26. Helping friends & coworkers

27. Empathy Empathy Empathy

28. Help them feel safe

29. Acknowledge their frustration

30. Change is terrifying

31. Encourage & enable them to seek help

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

33. Thank you for listening