I don’t have an opinion on the best place to ask, but the best place to search for and browse information on health, including mental health, these days is Youtube—at least, that is where I have been getting most of my health information starting about 12 months ago.
I have been a very heavy consumer of health and mental-health information since 1984.
The big disadvantage of Youtube as a source of information of course is that it constantly tempts you to use your time in pleasant but unproductive ways. I deal with the temptation by not even trying to use Youtube for productive ends except when I am most able to resist temptation and by reviewing https://myactivity.google.com/product/youtube frequently to make sure I am not deceiving myself about how much of my Youtube usage is productive.
Specifically, I find that Youtube’s search (https://youtube.com/results?search_query=foo) gives better results than Google Search (https://google.com/search?q=foo) for health-related queries—provided that (as is usually the case) the information I am looking for is of potential interest to a largish population of people: a very specific piece of information, e.g., about a rare health condition, is still best found via Google Search. Moreover, the single most helpful piece of health advice I have received in the last 24 months I found by browsing Youtube’s home page—while I was signed into Youtube, so Youtube’s algorithm could personalize its recommendations to me. I found many other helpful videos that way, too, including the second single most important piece of health advice in the last 24 months.
I don’t have an opinion on the best place to ask, but the best place to search for and browse information on health, including mental health, these days is Youtube—at least, that is where I have been getting most of my health information starting about 12 months ago.
I have been a very heavy consumer of health and mental-health information since 1984.
The big disadvantage of Youtube as a source of information of course is that it constantly tempts you to use your time in pleasant but unproductive ways. I deal with the temptation by not even trying to use Youtube for productive ends except when I am most able to resist temptation and by reviewing https://myactivity.google.com/product/youtube frequently to make sure I am not deceiving myself about how much of my Youtube usage is productive.
Specifically, I find that Youtube’s search (https://youtube.com/results?search_query=foo) gives better results than Google Search (https://google.com/search?q=foo) for health-related queries—provided that (as is usually the case) the information I am looking for is of potential interest to a largish population of people: a very specific piece of information, e.g., about a rare health condition, is still best found via Google Search. Moreover, the single most helpful piece of health advice I have received in the last 24 months I found by browsing Youtube’s home page—while I was signed into Youtube, so Youtube’s algorithm could personalize its recommendations to me. I found many other helpful videos that way, too, including the second single most important piece of health advice in the last 24 months.