Both seem well-intentioned but make me deeply uncomfortable. I suppose the fundamental reason being that if you want to destigmatize mental health issues, maybe you should destigmatize seeking treatment from mental health professionals first.
If the mental health professional then decides you should be involuntarily committed or detained in a mental health facility, you're screwed.
I applaud the motives behind #itsoktotalk but if you do talk and they strip you of any decision making, then this campaign will fail. The result of talking about thoughts of suicide very often leaves the sufferer in a mental health facility - or waiting for hours in a stressful ER room (or worse) and you won't be seen to at all.
I don't understand what makes this open source. It seems to be a nonprofit for the destigmatization of mental illness by a forum to discuss online and I guess resource collection. By that logic, several craft hobby communities are open source.
I'm having trouble finding the source code, am I the only one?
I wonder what a mental illness compiler would look like. Would every user have to interact with a ML system to derive their own opcodes? Could it be used both for curing and causing mental illnesses?
"The next 3 months I'm taking a sabatical. I will go to a resort where I will be given clinical depression.
A childhood friend died of it when there was no cure, and I've always wondered what her experience was like.
I hope understanding what she went through will give me some closure."
They link to Zero Suicide, which is good, but they should also link to Suicide Safer Communities which is possibly more effective to reduce rates of suicide because it recognises that suicide prevention is everyone's business, and that suicide isn't limited to people with diagnosed mental illness.
At this point I have to say that if anyone in NSW, Australia is thinking of suicidal thoughts - do NOT call the police, or anyone in the Public Health Service. This absolutely includes the Ambulance Service.
Why? Because of the following:
20 Detention on information of ambulance officer [1]
(1) An ambulance officer who provides ambulance
services in relation to a person may take the person
to a declared mental health facility if the officer
believes on reasonable grounds that the person appears
to be mentally ill or mentally disturbed and that it
would be beneficial to the person’s welfare to be dealt
with in accordance with this Act.
(2) An ambulance officer may request police
assistance if of the opinion that there are serious
concerns relating to the safety of the person or other
persons if the person is taken to a mental health
facility without the assistance of a police officer
Then section 21 defines "police assistance":
Police assistance [2]
(1) A police officer to whose notice a police assistance
endorsement on a mental health certificate, or a request
for assistance by an ambulance officer under this Division,
is brought must, if practicable:
(a) apprehend and take or assist in taking the person the
subject of the certificate or request to a declared
mental health facility, or
(b) cause or make arrangements for some other police
officer to do so.
(2) A police officer may enter premises to apprehend
a person under this section, and may apprehend any such
person, without a warrant and may exercise any powers
conferred by section 81 on a person who is authorised
under that section to take a person to a mental health
facility or another health facility.
I'm sure people in the U.S. Can see how problematic this is. And - it's not just an abstract concept to me, it happened to me several months ago.
I know many people who, in the UK, have been detained under section 136 of the mental health act. This is a power given to police to detain people who are in public and mentally ill.
We're trying hard to reduce the numbers of these detentions; to make sure that any that happen are always appropriate; and to change the location of the detention from police cells to health-based places of safety.
While detention under s136 has problems, and should be avoided, and needs vigorous checks and balances, it undoubtedly saves lives.
I liked their previous name "devpressed" better. But good initiative.
My personal piece of advice for any developer suffering from anxiety, depression or other mental problems, is to focus on posture. Bad posture can have a really big impact on mental health. You can have RSI in your upper back without knowing it (arms & hands still working okay), and this can cause all kinds of other problems.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 52.5 ms ] threadMy first thought was that now I can get a mental illness for free. Um, no, thanks.
Which is something somebody should really look into.
https://sanctus.io/
Both seem well-intentioned but make me deeply uncomfortable. I suppose the fundamental reason being that if you want to destigmatize mental health issues, maybe you should destigmatize seeking treatment from mental health professionals first.
I applaud the motives behind #itsoktotalk but if you do talk and they strip you of any decision making, then this campaign will fail. The result of talking about thoughts of suicide very often leaves the sufferer in a mental health facility - or waiting for hours in a stressful ER room (or worse) and you won't be seen to at all.
The hashtag should be #itsnotoktotalk
I wonder what a mental illness compiler would look like. Would every user have to interact with a ML system to derive their own opcodes? Could it be used both for curing and causing mental illnesses?
"The next 3 months I'm taking a sabatical. I will go to a resort where I will be given clinical depression.
A childhood friend died of it when there was no cure, and I've always wondered what her experience was like.
I hope understanding what she went through will give me some closure."
https://github.com/osmihelp
https://www.livingworks.net/community/suicide-safer-communit...
Why? Because of the following:
Then section 21 defines "police assistance":Police assistance [2]
I'm sure people in the U.S. Can see how problematic this is. And - it's not just an abstract concept to me, it happened to me several months ago.1. http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/mha2007128...
2. http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/mha2007128...
We're trying hard to reduce the numbers of these detentions; to make sure that any that happen are always appropriate; and to change the location of the detention from police cells to health-based places of safety.
While detention under s136 has problems, and should be avoided, and needs vigorous checks and balances, it undoubtedly saves lives.
My personal piece of advice for any developer suffering from anxiety, depression or other mental problems, is to focus on posture. Bad posture can have a really big impact on mental health. You can have RSI in your upper back without knowing it (arms & hands still working okay), and this can cause all kinds of other problems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8zOlpPUDCg