About Mental Health Matters

Get Mental Help, Inc.

Get Mental Help, Inc., the new owner of Mental Health Matters, was founded to supply information and resources to mental health consumers, professionals, students and supporters. While the percentage of people facing a diagnosable Mental Disorder in any given year is substantial, the acceptance of these problems can be hard to come by. Essentially, Mental Health Issues are hidden illnesses. The need for an anonymous avenue for consumers and supporters to gather information very real and very large.

Mental Health Matters was founded and run for 5 years by Judy Castelli. Judy sold the site in June of 2001 in order to focus on her other site, Multiple-Personality.com. As the new owners, our goals for the site are not much different from Judy's. We would like to see the site grow and flourish into the best Mental Health resource on the web.

Consumers

Get Mental Help's main purpose is to provide a structured source of information about mental health issues. To this end, Mental Health Matters will offer detailed technical briefs on disorders, symptoms, treatment modes, and in time, a "comparison engine" that allows users to compare different aspects of disorders. With this information, we hope to educate consumers and guide them towards intelligent decisions in their pursuit of Mental Health.

Students

Mental Health Matters will also provide information for students to continue their education about Mental Health issues, providing them with access to their peers and anonymous consumers for the exchange of ideas and information. Our primary goal in dealing with those studying Mental Health is to provide real experience about the population they will be treating and assist them in becoming competent professionals. This will hopefully help to improve the quality of care available.

Professionals

The professional market will have access to peer discussion boards where they can ask difficult questions of other Mental Health Providers, as well as the public boards where they will be encouraged to ask questions of both consumers and students. The primary goal here is to improve the knowledge base and spread information throughout the community. Space will be provided for professionals to interact with their patients as well, giving them a place to post articles and information about their own practice, the disorders they treat, and the Treatment Methods they offer.