I'm out of there. Produced by Joan Fleitas, an assistant professor of nursing at Fairfield University, the site is especially helpful for kids living with a chronic illness. The kids' pages have helpful advice for sick kids, such as whether or not to tell school friends about an illness and how to handle being teased. N.J. The anonymity of the Internet can be comforting to those coping with mental illnesses. Dr. Warren has a long list of sites that he goes to for either general mental-health information or to home in on a specific illness, such as depression or anxiety.
Patients can get details on cutting-edge research and the latest breakthroughs in medications.
Run by New York psychiatrist Ivan Goldberg, Depression Central may be graphically boring, but it is chock full of plain-spoken information on depression, bipolar disorder and other mood ailments. It also includes abstracts from medical journals, rankings of psychiatric hospitals, links to online support groups and biographies of afflicted famous people, such as Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and Virginia Woolf. Dr. Krumholz is a cautious Web surfer. People ought to stick to organizations they have a lot of confidence in. Separate sections on the heart and strokes give detailed prevention and treatment information.