Editorial policy
How we write, source and correct
MyFreud publishes psychology and mental-health articles for a general audience. This page states how that content is produced, what it is checked against, and what it is not. If anything here does not match what you find on the site, that is a bug and we would like to hear about it.
What MyFreud is not
MyFreud is not a healthcare provider and employs no clinicians. Nothing published here is a diagnosis, a treatment plan, or a substitute for care from a qualified professional. If you are in crisis, contact your local emergency services or a crisis helpline; several are listed on our depression screener.
Medical review status
No article on this site currently carries a named medical reviewer. We do not display any badge or label claiming otherwise. Where an article is evidenced, the evidence is the references list at the foot of it, which you can check yourself; that is a different thing from a clinician signing the piece off, and we would rather you read the sources than a reassuring label. Our content model supports attaching a named reviewer with stated credentials, and until a real clinician is doing that work we will leave the field visibly empty rather than imply a review that is not happening.
How articles are sourced
Articles are synthesised from several trusted consumer-health and professional sources rather than paraphrased from one, and every substantive claim is attributed inline so you can follow it back. Typical sources are the NHS, NIMH, WHO, the APA, Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic and Harvard Health, alongside primary research where a specific finding is being described.
Where an article summarises a single study, it says which study, links the record, and reports what the study actually measured, including its limits. A finding in one trial is reported as a finding in one trial.
Charts and figures
Some articles include a chart to illustrate a relationship described in the text. Those are author-supplied illustrations, and they are labelled Illustrative with a source line saying so. We do not present an invented number as a reported one.
Dates
Every article shows the date it was published, and an updated date when it has been substantively revised. We do not refresh dates to look current: a date only moves when the content behind it actually changed.
Corrections
If you find an error, email support@myfreud.com with the article URL and what is wrong. Factual errors are corrected as soon as we can verify the correct information; where a correction changes the meaning of a passage, the article's updated date moves and the change is noted in the article. Typographical fixes are made silently.
We would rather remove a claim we cannot stand behind than leave it up with a caveat.
Use of AI
AI tooling is used in producing this site, including for drafting and for editorial operations. It is not used to invent citations, findings, journal names or DOIs, and the generation pipeline rejects output that tries to. Everything published is checked against real sources before it ships, and the editorial team is accountable for what appears under its byline.
Ownership and funding
MyFreud is published by MEDRIX LTD, which also makes the MyFreud app. The site carries no advertising, no sponsored posts and no affiliate links. It is funded by the app, which is why you will find links to it in articles. Those links are marketing for our own product and are not editorial recommendations of it over anything else.
No third party pays to appear on this site, and no source is cited because of a commercial relationship.
AI crawlers and quotation
AI crawlers are allowed, deliberately; the policy and the reasoning are stated in robots.txt. Quoting or summarising our work is welcome. Please attribute it to MyFreud and link the article you used.
Contact
Editorial questions, corrections and everything else: get in touch. You can also read more about MyFreud or see who writes here on the editorial team page.