Why we're being explicit about this
The consumer-health category has a well-earned reputation for overclaiming clinical rigor. "Medically reviewed by our expert panel" appears on pages where the "review" is a rubber-stamp from a contractor who spent ten minutes on the page. That practice is harmful: it inflates reader trust past what the underlying process actually warrants.
We chose a different position: be an editorial resource, and be clear about it. Our content is careful, sourced, and useful — but it's editorial, not clinical. When you read something on Anxiety.com, treat it the way you'd treat a well-researched article in a serious magazine: as high-quality information that helps you have a better conversation with a licensed professional, not as a substitute for one.
How we write and source
Authorship
Content is written and edited by our editorial team — writers with backgrounds in health journalism and product, not licensed clinicians. Every clinical page carries a byline identifying the editorial team responsible for it.
Sourcing
Clinical claims are sourced to primary or authoritative material:
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5-TR)
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- American Psychiatric Association / American Psychological Association
- Peer-reviewed studies indexed in PubMed (with DOI or PubMed ID linked)
- US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for medication information
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
- Cochrane systematic reviews when available
We do not cite social media, marketing pages of therapy companies, or unverified secondary sources for clinical claims. Personal experience and case examples are labeled as such and are not the sole basis for any clinical claim.
Language and framing
We use precise language about what we are and what we produce:
- The GAD-7 is a screener, not a diagnostic tool. Every result page says so.
- An assessment result is a screening result, not a diagnosis.
- Treatments "may help" or "have evidence for" — they do not "cure" anxiety.
- Recommendations are matched to a user's screening result and stated preferences; they are not clinical prescriptions.
- We do not use the phrase "medically reviewed" — because we don't clinically review content, and the phrase would be misleading.
What this means for how to read us
- Read our content as high-quality editorial, not as medical advice.
- Use our free assessment as a conversation-starter with a clinician, not as a diagnosis.
- Bring specific questions from what you read here to your primary care provider or therapist.
- If a specific recommendation doesn't fit your circumstances, please email us — the routing gets better when we hear from people it didn't fit.
Corrections
Health information changes. If you find something on Anxiety.com that's inaccurate, outdated, or misleading, email editorial@anxiety.com. The editorial team looks at every incoming report within a business week and, when the report is valid, updates the page and publishes a correction note with the date and a brief description of what changed.
Independence from advertisers
Anxiety.com currently has no affiliate relationships — partner links on the site go directly to each service with no tracking or referral fee. When we do bring on affiliate partners in the future, two firewall commitments will apply:
- Recommendations are matched to fit, not payout. The Anxiety Profile assessment routes users to the partner that fits their severity band and modality preference — not to the highest-paying partner. This routing logic is visible in the site's client-side code (
/anxiety/result.js). - Sponsored placements are visibly labeled. Any content produced in partnership with an advertiser is clearly identified as such and does not appear inside standard editorial articles.
Details of any current affiliate relationships (and none is currently the honest answer) are on the affiliate disclosure page.
AI use
Anxiety.com uses AI tools in the drafting process — for outlines, first drafts, and copy editing. Every published article is subsequently written, edited, and reviewed by human editors. We do not publish first-draft AI-generated content, and we do not publish content that has not been through human editorial review.
User-generated content
Anxiety.com does not currently accept user-generated clinical content (comments, personal advice, testimonials with clinical claims). This may change in the future; if it does, this policy will be updated.