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Established in 2004, mindyourmind consists of a team of health care, education and new media professionals dedicated to:

• reducing the stigma of mental illnesses
• providing educational and motivational information for youth to change their mental health outcomes

The evidence we use to support our work comes from many sources:

• working and partnering with youth and young adults
• professional and youth networks
• research literature
• professional journals and conferences
• on-line communities of practice

Some mindyourmind content is in the form of personal expression; these are the opinions and experiences of individuals. Information from mindyourmind supports, but doesn't replace, professional clinical relationships.

All kinds! Seriously, there's pretty much nothing we turn down. Our most popular submissions are:

• Personal stories
• Poetry
• Visual artwork
• Dance routines
• Photography

There are three reasons for this. First, posting content is not always a quick process. After submitting, it may take up to two weeks to approve your work and display it on mindyourmind. Be patient — if we've gotten a lot of content recently or someone's on vacation, we might not have had time to post yet!

The second reason is that you didn't really mean to submit a blog or story; what you sent was a question. mindyourmind never offers advice, gives counselling or offers a diagnosis to our users. Because we don't provide counselling, we can't respond to any submissions, even if you give us your information. The form is meant to be anonymous; we respect anonymity.

The third reason is that we have chosen not to post your comment, blog or story for a safety reason. Some works have the potential to trigger other users and in these cases, we cannot share your work. We encourage you to rework your submission and try again, keeping in mind that we try to post information that helps others who need help.

Long story short; writing up disorder content is really time consuming and difficult. We're in the process of updating our illness pages with new content, and before we started, we asked people who visited our website what information they wanted — we aim to reflect those needs.

But we acknowledge that what we have isn't a complete list. There is good news though! We're always generating new content for mindyourmind. If there's another topic you think we should have information on, please contact us and we'll keep track of requests. These will be the basis for when we add information about new disorders.

Yes! If you would like to volunteer, please contact us.

Volunteering for mindyourmind is quite different than with any other organization. Our major volunteer commitments are through Street Teams, which take place either online or in person. These occur a few times a year and are the basis for the creation of most of our tools, promotional materials and more. That said, we might not always have a team starting when you contact us. In the meantime, there are other ways you can contribute to our website, anytime.

You can:

• Submit your personal expression and share what helps you cope
• Write interview questions and interview celebrities on our behalf
• Promote mindyourmind or mental health awareness in your school or community
• Participate in one-time focus groups to provide feedback.
• Spread the word! Help someone out and let them know about the site 
• Sign up for our monthly newsletter, mindBYTES, to receive monthly updates

Just contact us and let us know what you're interested in doing.

Yes, absolutely!

By providing a link to and supporting mindyourmind, you are helping to promote the wellness and well-being of others that may need this resource. If we can help in any way, let us know.