How to Use This Site

We have tried to keep this site simple. All pages have a navigation bar at the top, just like the one above. At the bottom of most pages you find links that allow you to continue with the same topic or a related topic. We have two types of links on most pages:  internal and external.  Internal links take you to other places inside Healthinmind.  External links take you outside of our site to other sites on the web.  If you're new to the site your best bet is to go to our Home Page, from which you can navigate to the entire site.

Search  takes you to an internal search engine where you can type in keywords for what you are interested in.  This is probably your best choice if you are looking for something specific and you know what that is.

Mental Health Disorders (only "Disorders" on the Navigation Bar) takes you to a page that in turn leads you to all of the mental disorders. Disorders are listed by categories, so it may be a good place to go if you don't know the name of the disorder you are interested in, but you have a general idea.  

How Families Can Help provides information on what families and friends can do to help individuals with mental health disorders live a better life.  We've tried to supply you with easy to read, useful information and an explanation of how your behavior can help the patient.

About Getting Services leads you to a page with several links to information relevant to those who are considering seeking professional help for themselves or a loved one.  We include information on types of mental health professionals, types of treatments, what to expect from your first visit, issues of confidentiality, etc.

Emergencies provides you with information on how to prevent or identify potential dangers.  It includes suicide and domestic violence (and will be expanded as time goes on), along with links for further information.

About Mental Disorders provides general information on mental illness, such as definitions, causes, and a glossary of terms used in this site.

Purpose of Health in Mind gives you information on why we created this site and what we hope to accomplish with it.

Disclaimer provides you with information on the limitations of healthinmind and other web resources like this one.  The emphasis from this page is that you need to be an informed Internet visitor.

Mentesana.com  is our Spanish web site.  If you prefer to read in Spanish, or would like to print information out for a Spanish-speaker, you can go to this site.

If you don't even know where to start, but you know you want information about symptoms, try this page to see if it helps you find your way. 

We also have a page for recent developments in the mental health field; click here to go to our "news" page.

You will notice that our site is nearly all text, and that the text is printed in easily visible letters. We wanted to make our site easy to print for your convenience, and we also wanted it to be easy to read on the screen in case you couldn't, or didn't want to, print out the information. We also tried to include as few links as possible on each page, both to make it easier to choose where you want to go next, and to reduce the time required and the paper wasted on links in case you did want to print out what was on the screen. Also, some people have browsers that don't show graphics--and finally, we don't want our site to look like a billboard and make you feel like we're always trying to sell you something. 
 
In order to fund this site, we may display advertising that we believe is appropriate to the site or helpful to our readers.  We also have direct links to Amazon.com so that our readers can purchase the books we suggest if they choose to, and we obtain income from those purchases. So far, that hasn't paid expenses!

                                                                                                                                Last updated  12/19/03