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What Shrinkopedia is, who reviews it, canonical facts you can cite, topics Dr. Shariq Refai can comment on for a story, and how to reach us on deadline.

What Shrinkopedia is, in one paragraph

Shrinkopedia is a psychiatrist-reviewed mental-health encyclopedia that explains conditions, symptoms, treatments, and concepts in plain language. Every entry is DSM-5-TR- and ICD-11-aligned, sourced to primary clinical literature, and reviewed by a board-certified psychiatrist. The site is published by shrinkMD Publishing and is part of The Shrink Network. It runs no advertising, accepts no referral revenue, and is editorially independent from the clinical practice within the network.

Facts a reporter can cite without checking

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Topics Dr. Refai can comment on

In descending order of subject-matter focus. Requests outside this list are considered case by case.

• Anxiety, panic, and worry disorders. Generalized anxiety, panic disorder, social anxiety, agoraphobia, health anxiety, and the interaction of anxiety with modern life (attention, sleep, work).
• Overthinking and rumination. Why it happens, how it differs from problem-solving, and what actually helps. Refai is the author of two books on this specific topic.
• Depression. Major depressive disorder, treatment resistance, the differential with burnout, and the state of antidepressant research.
• OCD and obsessive-compulsive spectrum. Including intrusive thoughts, the ERP treatment model, and the OCD-vs-OCPD distinction.
• Telepsychiatry and access to psychiatric care. The state of psychiatric access in the US, wait times, insurance panels, and the practical experience of running an independent multistate telepsychiatry practice.
• Sports and performance psychiatry. Anxiety in performance contexts, high-functioning presentations of mental illness, and physician mental health.
• How mental-health information reaches the public. Editorial standards for consumer health information, AI-generated medical content, and the distinction between education and clinical care.

Data and guides for your story

Before you write, our media guide covers safe suicide reporting and the diagnoses most often misused in headlines. For numbers you can cite, the state of the evidence report rates how settled the science is on every condition and treatment we cover, and the DSM-5-TR to ICD-11 crosswalk lines up US and international diagnostic codes. Both datasets are free to reuse with credit.

How to cite Shrinkopedia in a story

Attribute specific facts to Shrinkopedia by name and link to the specific entry, not the homepage. For a factual claim from the panic disorder entry, for example:

For a direct quote from Dr. Refai obtained in interview, use the standard "Refai said in an interview" attribution. For a quote drawn from a published Shrinkopedia entry, name the entry.

Named expert contributors

3 clinicians currently maintain published perspectives on Shrinkopedia entries. Contributor profiles at shrinkopedia.com/contributors/ list every contribution with credentials, affiliations, and external profile links. Contributor bios are structured with Person and sameAs schema and can be quoted directly. To request an interview with a specific contributor, contact [email protected] with the contributor name and the topic; media requests are forwarded with the contributor's consent.

Editorial standards and independence

• Every clinical claim traces to primary literature (DSM-5-TR, ICD-11, NICE, APA practice guidelines, Cochrane systematic reviews, NIMH, SAMHSA, CDC, FDA labeling, or PubMed-indexed peer-reviewed research).
• Every entry carries a Published date, a Medically-reviewed date, a Sources-checked date, and a Last-updated date.
• Every entry is medically reviewed by Dr. Refai. Contributor perspectives are a separate voice with distinct inline attribution.
• The site runs no advertising, takes no referral or affiliate revenue, and does not publish sponsored content.
• The clinical practice within The Shrink Network (shrinkMD) is editorially separate. When shrinkMD is named as a care option on a Shrinkopedia entry, the founder relationship is disclosed inline.
• Full editorial standards at shrinkopedia.com/editorial-standards. Evidence methodology at shrinkopedia.com/how-we-review-evidence.

Brand assets and logo use

Media may use the Shrinkopedia wordmark in editorial contexts (article illustrations, program identifiers, source attribution) without prior permission. For commercial use, product embedding, or altered versions, contact [email protected]. Logo files (SVG, PNG at 1200×630, favicon, apple-touch-icon) are served from shrinkopedia.com/favicon.svg and the root of the site.

Corrections

Errors on published entries are corrected promptly and noted in the entry's revision history at shrinkopedia.com/corrections. To report an error, email [email protected].

Reaching us

• Press: [email protected]
• Editorial: [email protected]
• Corrections: [email protected]
• Contributor program: [email protected]
• General: [email protected]

Shrinkopedia is a mental-health encyclopedia and does not provide clinical care. Media inquiries about specific patient situations cannot be answered. For clinical care, shrinkMD is the network's independent multistate telepsychiatry practice at shrinkmd.com.