Anxiety disorders, What can we trust online?

More and more we are getting used to finding all our concerns and answers from the web. As it is easy and fast to do, and probably just a matter of typing a key word on Google to come up with thousands of web pages addressing our matter of concern. But, how can we tell how reliable a website is? When referring to health in particular, it is primordial to learn how to differentiate from a trustworthy web page from one that lacks credibility.Now a days everybody is able to introduce information of any kind to the web and, unfortunately most of them have lucrative objectives when doing so.Having said that, in this post I am going to address information about anxiety disorders found in a website lacking credibility and I will give important reasons as of why is it the case it lacks credibility and I will counter that website with a credible one.



To start, take a look at this website, the author claims to have an immediate cure for anxiety disorders and attacks, an e-book called "Panic away". The first thing lacking credibility is the layout of the site, it looks like it is something that a kid could do using some basic knowledge of blogging, right away the author refers to "personal experience" and talks about how he found the cure and how he wants to share it with people so we can save thousands of dollars. He directs us to a website where a video starts, and he gives some more information about this miraculous cure. He claims that anxiety disorders are not a mental illness. He then addresses that his cure can get rid of anxiety disorders in 7 minutes, moreover he says that the regular treatment such as drugs and therapy do not work at all to cure anxiety disorders. He finishes the video offering a great price for his e-book and how people can not miss this opportunity. After reading and listening all the information he offers, we can not tell who this person is, what kind of educational background he has and even worse, what kind of references he has to support his claims.

Now, take a look at this website instead, the Public Health agency of Canada, first thing to notice is the website termination, .gc.ca, a site supported by the Canadian government. Second we can notice at the bottom the formal references and resources this web page has used. We can trust that is credible one and a good source of information too. We can find out after researching the website that anxiety disorder is considered a mental illness and the cure for this is a progressive treatment either with medication or therapy (cognitive) or both.

To conclude, we need to be careful on what we trust from the web, this is only one example from maybe thousands out there. Identifying a credible source of information is important in order for us to take advantage of this essential tool of the Internet to accurately respond our answers and concerns.