Editorial Policy

Official Sources Only

Facts about conditions, therapies, medicines, coverage and the law come only from government agencies and the official text of the law:

• the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), including FindTreatment.gov, the source of every facility listing, and the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline;
• the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for conditions and therapy approaches;
• the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Medicaid.gov and Medicare.gov for what coverage pays for;
• the U.S. Department of Labor and CMS for the mental health parity law;
• the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), through FDA-approved drug labels, for medicines;
• the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for veterans' mental health care;
• state mental health authorities, Medicaid agencies, crisis line pages and licensing boards for state facts.

Psychology Today and other therapist directories, online-therapy companies, treatment center marketing, news stories, forums, personal stories and Wikipedia are never used as sources. Every figure shows its year and where it came from. The How We Research page explains how the facility data and state facts are gathered and refreshed.

Information, Not Medical Advice

Pages explain how mental health care works, what the options are and how to pay for it. They don't diagnose anyone, offer screening quizzes, recommend a specific provider or tell you which therapy or medication is right for you. They never promise results. Those decisions belong with a licensed clinician who can talk with you about what you're going through.

Medication pages describe only what FDA labels say a medicine is approved for and the warnings on its label. They never suggest starting, stopping or changing a medicine.

Crisis Safety on Every Page

The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline appears on every page: call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org, and call 911 in an emergency. Crisis pages follow the language SAMHSA and 988 use, and no page describes methods of self-harm. Where a decision depends on your situation, pages point you to free help, including SAMHSA's National Helpline at 1-800-662-4357.

Respectful, Plain Language

• Pages talk to you directly, in short sentences, for someone reading on a phone, maybe late at night.
• Language is person-first and free of stigma: "a person with depression," "a person living with bipolar disorder," "died by suicide." Pages never define someone by a diagnosis, never use words like "crazy," and never describe suicide in the language of crime or success and failure.
• Clinical terms, such as "partial hospitalization" or "dialectical behavior therapy," are explained the first time they appear.
• Pages state a fact and its limit once, without scare language or piled-up hedges.

What Every Page Goes Through Before Publishing

• It answers its main question near the top, with the source and date.
• Each fact is recorded with the official page it came from, and automated checks confirm that figures trace to those records.
• Automated checks confirm that internal links work and that the wording meets these standards.
• It is checked for accuracy against its sources and for plain wording by the Anxiety Help Editorial Team. The team isn't a clinical team, and its review covers accuracy and clarity, not medical judgment.

Facility Listings Are Never Sold

Facility listings come from SAMHSA's FindTreatment.gov, with only the details each facility reported. No facility can pay to be listed, ranked, featured or described differently, and Anxiety Help adds no ratings, reviews or quality claims of its own. Listing phone numbers are the facilities' own numbers from SAMHSA, never tracked or call-center lines.

How Corrections Work

A page is corrected when an official source shows it is wrong or out of date. The correction fixes the detail, cites the supporting source and updates the page's review date. State facts are re-checked at least once a year. To report an error, use the contact form with the page address and, if you can, the official page that shows the right detail. Changes to a facility's own listing go through SAMHSA, as the How We Research page explains.

Independence From Advertisers

The site is paid for by display ads from Google AdSense. Google chooses the ads; advertisers never see pages before they go live and have no say in what they say. Ads never appear inside or between facility listings, and they never decide which facilities are shown or in what order. The advertising disclosure covers where ads appear.

How Paid Offers Would Be Labelled

The site has no affiliate links and doesn't promote any online-therapy company. If a paid offer is ever added, it will sit in its own box labelled "Sponsored," with a disclosure line, and never inside facility listings, a guide's answer or a list of official or crisis resources. Its links will be marked as sponsored for search engines, and the advertising disclosure will name the type of offer.

Who Is Responsible

Anxiety Help is published by Rupe Enterprises LLC, a Washington company. Neither the publisher nor the editorial team provides therapy, medical advice, crisis support or referrals. To find care, use the mental health facility finder or call SAMHSA's National Helpline at 1-800-662-4357.