Psych Central is the Internet's largest and oldest independent mental health social network. Since 1995, it has been run by mental health professionals offering reliable, trusted information and over 150 support groups to consumers. We are today's modern voice for mental health information and advocacy and have the broadest online reach and recognition of any mental health network online today, touching the lives of nearly 1 million people around the world every month.

Psych Central has its roots in indexing online support groups, starting in the summer of 1991. Launched in January 1995 as Psych Central: John Grohol's Mental Health Page, our website was an instant hit from the beginning with its directory of online mental health resources and the first lists of symptoms for mental disorders published online. Within the first 3 months, it received Point's prestigious Top 5% of the Web award, as well as a fair amount of media attention in the ensuing years. We are consistently rated as one of the top mental health resources online today.

Regularly maintained by Dr. Grohol and a staff of contributing editors, it is one of the Net's best information sources for mental health information, as well as providing annotated guides to the most useful websites, newsgroups, and mailing lists online today in mental health, psychology, social work, and psychiatry. We also developed the popular Sanity Score, a free online mental health screening test.

Psych Central was named one of the 50 Best Websites for 2008 by TIME Magazine, and has been indexed within Forbes Magazine's Best of the Web directory. Psych Central has been noted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, L.A.Times, TIME, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, the Washington Post, USA Today, USA Weekend, The Village Voice, Business Week, Forbes Magazine, and dozens of other publications. We are currently celebrating our 16th year online.

Psych Central is privately and wholly owned and operated by Dr. John Grohol.

Last reviewed: By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on 27 Aug 2009