mental health

Heather Rodriguez (Engineer at CivicActions) and Kat Kuhl (Director of Technology at CHIEF) gave a very good talk at BADCamp:

• Conquering Impostor Syndrome in the Open Source Community

Coming from a similar background, self educated in everything tech, it was easy to see myself in all the great examples they discussed.

Not about anyone else, about yourself.

No one else have your knowledge about what is going on, how you feel, how you want to feel, how you react when faced with challenges to overcome and so on.

Same is true about what you want to accomplish, where you want to go, what is really important for you to understand and so on.

What everyone else can do is to offer help and guidance that can be degrees of either usable or useless.

tsvenson has created a Mental Health group and there are some posts there that I think are of interest to Drupal Fit members, too.

   https://groups.drupal.org/mental-health

I haven't spoken to him about it but I think it's a great "sister group" to Drupal Fit and I'd like to encourage everyone to check it out!

In other news, today I added a Search page to the Drupal Fit group and now all our posts, events, community spotlights, etc. can be more easily found:

   https://groups.drupal.org/drupal-fit/search

I've just created a wiki-page with a few links to online resource that have been very useful for me to turn things around.

Especially I would like to point you to the MOOC - Learning How to Learn - listed there. I enrolled in it just a few days ago and are can only say it is absolutely fantastic. Arguable one of the best resources I have ever seen to explain just how far science have come in understanding how the human brain works, how we learn and also keep a healthy mind.

When I created this group, soon three years ago, I had yet to hit rock bottom. That happened a year ago and since then things have become increasingly better.

Now when I am getting back to normal life and after having watched many of the sessions coming out from DrupalCon Barcelona, this feels like a good place for me to restart contribute back in a for me meaningful way.

Hi everyone

I am based in NW England working in Community Mental Health in Ormskirk. I'm a member of the BCS Nursing Specialist Group, RCN IN group and been interested in IT in health since 1980. I wrote computer aided learning programs on the BBC micro - yes I'm getting on a bit... ;-)

I've done work in data standards, and on the NHS CRS local implementation. Since 1998 I've had a website for a health and social care model called Hodges model. The site is static and needs completely revamping. I'm learning Drupal (and Ruby) to create a new website and possibly a community.