This page explains how the mental-health information on jonathanhaverkampf.com is written, sourced, reviewed, and bounded. The aim is to make the site more useful, transparent, and safe for readers while keeping professional help easy to find when it is wanted.
If You Feel Unsafe Right Now
If you are reading because you feel frightened, overwhelmed, unsafe, or worried about what you might do, this website cannot be sufficient support on its own. You need and deserve real-time help from a person who can respond immediately. Please contact local emergency services, go to an emergency department, or use a recognised crisis support service now.
If thoughts of suicide, self-harm, or harming someone else are part of what is happening, please do not try to carry this alone or manage it through a webpage. Safety needs to come first. Please contact local emergency services, go to an emergency department, call a mental health crisis centre, or use a recognised crisis support service now, so a person can respond in real time.
What This Site Is For
The site is an educational public mental-health resource and a route to psychotherapy and counselling services. It is meant to help readers understand common mental-health topics, think through next steps, prepare better questions for professionals, and find relevant support routes.
The information here is not a substitute for diagnosis, psychotherapy, counselling, emergency care, medical care, medication advice, legal advice, or personalised treatment advice. The fuller site boundary is set out in the Disclaimer.
Who Writes and Maintains the Information
Pages are written and maintained by Dr Jonathan Haverkampf for a professional mental-health website. This is a single-author professional site rather than a large media publication with a separate editorial board. The site therefore aims to be clear about its limits, careful about claims, and explicit when readers should seek personal professional help.
Jonathan’s own publications and research routes may be linked where they are genuinely relevant, especially through the Research and Publications hub. They are not used as the sole evidence for clinical, medication, diagnostic, crisis, legal, or public-health claims.
How Sources Are Chosen
Mental-health topics can affect real decisions, so high-trust pages are checked against reputable sources where practical. The exact source mix depends on the topic, but priority is given to independent public-health bodies, clinical guidelines, peer-reviewed literature, professional organisations, and major health-system explainers.
- For crisis, public-health, access-to-care, and support-route wording: official services such as HSE, NHS, 988, SAMHSA, or equivalent local services are preferred.
- For diagnosis, medication, safety, and treatment topics: clinical guidelines, regulator information, public-health bodies, peer-reviewed literature, and major teaching-hospital explainers are preferred.
- For psychotherapy, counselling, communication, relationship, grief, stress, and self-understanding topics: clinical guidance and research are combined with careful plain-language explanation.
- For service pages: wording is kept calm and professional, without outcome guarantees, pressure tactics, or claims that a service is right for everyone.
How Pages Are Reviewed and Updated
The site is updated in priority order. Pages are refreshed when source material changes, when search or reader-interest data shows that a page is being found for a sensitive query, when internal links or routes become stale, or when a topic needs clearer safety boundaries.
Where a page has been substantially reviewed, it may include a visible source/review note. Older pages are being improved over time, especially where they cover symptoms, medication, diagnosis, crisis-adjacent wording, service routes, or high-traffic mental-health questions.
Safety Boundaries
- If you or someone else may be in immediate danger, contact local emergency services. In Ireland, call 112 or 999 or go to an emergency department; the HSE urgent-help page lists crisis routes. In the United States, call or text 988.
- The site cannot diagnose you. It can help you reflect on patterns and prepare questions, but diagnosis and treatment planning require an appropriate professional assessment.
- Medication questions, including starting, stopping, increasing, reducing, or combining medication, need to be discussed with a qualified prescriber.
- New, severe, persistent, unexplained, or worrying physical symptoms should not be assumed to be anxiety, stress, or another mental-health issue without appropriate medical advice.
- Comments, community areas, contact forms, and email are not psychotherapy, crisis care, or confidential clinical treatment channels.
How Reader Data Informs Improvements
The site uses privacy-conscious aggregate analytics and search data to identify pages that may need clearer wording, better routes, safer boundaries, or more helpful next steps. The Privacy Policy explains data handling in more detail.
Analytics work should not try to identify individual visitors, infer personal diagnoses, or store sensitive visitor details. It is used to improve public information, navigation, accessibility, and service discovery at an aggregate level.
How To Use The Site
- Start with Mental Health Topics if you want to understand a topic such as anxiety, OCD, depression, trauma, grief, relationships, stress, or burnout.
- Use Mental Health Help if you are looking for possible next steps or are not sure where to begin.
- Use the Dublin and online psychotherapy/counselling page, appointment page, or contact page if you are considering personal support.
- Treat any page as a starting point for reflection and discussion, not as a personal instruction or diagnosis.
Corrections and Questions
If a factual point, source link, page route, or safety boundary seems unclear or out of date, you can use the contact page to flag it. Please do not send urgent crisis information, highly sensitive personal details, or emergency requests through website forms or email.
Sources and Review Note
Page updated and source checked: 13 May 2026. This page links to official public-health and clinical-information sources used as part of the site’s review framework. Pages on specific conditions or treatments use more specific sources where needed.
- HSE mental-health supports and services and HSE urgent mental-health help.
- NIMH guidance on when mental-health help may be needed.
- NHS mental-health information, NICE guidance, and WHO mental-health topic information.
- 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline for United States crisis-routing context.