Open Sourcing Mental Illness - Lone Star PHP 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

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. None

22. As a developer

23. Positives

24. Working with teams

25. Interacting with users

26. IRC & forums

27. Conferences & Community

28. Techniques

29. Most of us self-medicate

30. Therapy

31. Medicine

32. Exercise

33. Meditation

34. Light

35. Avoidance of triggers

36. Crying

37. Finding comfort

38. Helping friends & coworkers

39. Help them feel safe

40. Frustration

41. Change

42. Resources

43. ๏ 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

44. ๏ http://www.patientslikeme.com/ ๏ https://www.moodscope.com/ ๏ https://www.superbetter.com/ ๏ Mental Illness Happy

    Hour (http://mentalpod.com/) ๏ http://mentalpod.com/forum/

45. Two more things https://joind.in/8689 3:30pm in Open Spaces: BlueHackers BoF

46. Thank you for listening