mhwKB

Mental Health and Wellness Knowledge Base

News

2017-10-11 The web site is live: https://mhwkb.github.io/ It needs enhancements to the design. I'll be adding more tickets soon. Anyone is welcome to join the chat room.

People are also encouraged to add their favorite mental health links.

This project is in the planning stages

Goals

increase awareness
Web site should be low-maintenance.
- no logins necessary, all changes to site will be submitted through the GitHub project page
- links to external web sites added should have relatively fast load times, not be bogged down fetching hotlinked images, etc.
To accumulate a wide variety of links related to mental health and wellness
To present information that is not well-advertised by well-known media outlets
To provide people with
- more information
- more choices
- more freedom to choose how they would like to pursue their recovery goals
- the potential for a more open discussion related to how the mental health care system could be improved

TODO

Collaborate / Determine the amount of interest in this project by other members of the open source community
~~Create web site~~
~~Program will be needed to parse data files that contains links~~
~~Allow users to easily submit links~~

Disclaimer

The content on the web sites linked to from the knowledge base has been written by doctors, consumers, and a wide variety of people who have had no formal education in the medical, psychological, or psychiatric field. Among other things, the information on this site and external web sites and blogs consists of opinions or personal stories - and as such, treated like any other opinions or stories you may hear or read about on any subject.

I, nor the contributors of the Mental Health and Wellness Knowledge Base, necessarily endorse, believe, or agree with, the views presented by the various sites to which the Knowledge Base links.

Warning About Discontinuing Medication

Please note: doctors recommend that no one should attempt to withdrawal from psychiatric drugs (Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, Anti-anxiety drugs and ADHD drugs) without a doctor's supervision. If you have firmly decided to discontinue medication without a doctor's supervision, you may find some guides to medication on Amazon or other book-selling sites.

About Me

I first received treatment for mental health issues (major depression, anxiety, PTSD) in 1991 (age 18). As a patient, I have seen numerous psychiatrists and psychotherapists, and have been prescribed (and used) many types of psychiatric medication. I have read many opinions on the subject of mental health, and the negative and positive experiences consumers have had while using the mental health care system. I have also read information written by journalists and doctors. I have no formal education in biology, medicine, psychiatry, or psychology.

Contributing to the KB

Contributing
List of Contributors (Please add your name if you have contributed)

dafky2000/mhwkb