Editorial policy
Editorial policy
An educational website about mental health, published by Dr. Muktesh Daund and Dr. Anita Daund, psychiatrists practising at NIMS Multispecialty Hospital, Nashik.
It is free to read. There is nothing to buy and nothing to sign up for.
Who writes here
A named, registered psychiatrist writes every page. No ghostwriters, no content agency, no anonymous byline.
Dr. Muktesh Daund — MBBS, DNB (Psychiatry) — writes on adult psychiatry and addiction.
Dr. Anita Daund — MBBS, MD (Psychiatry), Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry — writes everything concerning children, adolescents, development and schools.
We stay inside our own specialties. Child and adolescent psychiatry is separate training and separate work, and neither of us writes in the other’s area.
Registration numbers and full qualifications are on the profile pages, where you can check them.
Where the evidence comes from
In rough order of what gets reached for first:
- Indian clinical practice guidelines, particularly those of the Indian Psychiatric Society
- Indian population data, including the National Mental Health Survey
- ICD-11for diagnostic description
- Peer-reviewed research, weighted toward systematic reviews and randomised trials over single studies
- Legislation read directly— the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017 and related law, checked against the Act itself rather than a summary of it
- Clinical experience, marked as such wherever it appears
Indian data comes first where it exists. Evidence from elsewhere is useful for mechanism and treatment effect, but treatment gaps, family structures, stigma and what a family can afford are all different here. A finding from a European cohort does not tell a family in Nashik much about their situation.
Where the evidence is genuinely uncertain, the page says so. Psychiatry has real disagreements and open questions. Smoothing over them would make the writing easier and less honest.
If we cannot source it, we do not publish it. This is the rule that costs the most, and the reason some pages here took weeks rather than hours.
How a page is made
Drafted by the specialist author. Sourced and checked. Reviewed against the National Medical Commission’s professional conduct regulations. Read once more in full. Dated.
Writing and research tools, including AI, are used the way any drafting tool is used. Every clinical claim, every sourcing decision and every published sentence is a psychiatrist’s. Nothing goes live without a doctor having read all of it.
Marathi pages are written fresh in Marathi. They are not translations. Machine translation of medical content into Indian languages is not yet good enough to be safe, and a translated page carries English sentence rhythm into a language that does not want it.
Review and corrections
Every page carries a last-reviewed date. A page with no date is a page nobody is maintaining.
Pages are reviewed quarterly. Helpline numbers are verified by dialling them, every cycle, without exception — not by checking a website that lists them.
If something here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it. Write to dr.mukteshdaund@gmail.com . Where an error was substantive, the correction is noted on the page with its date. We would rather be corrected in public than be quietly wrong.
What we will never publish
Not a formality. Each item is common on Indian health websites, and each is refused for a stated reason.
- Patient testimonials. Prohibited under the NMC’s code, and independently a bad idea — one person’s recovery tells you nothing reliable about yours.
- Cure claims, success rates, outcome percentages. Psychiatry does not work that way, and a site that says otherwise is selling something.
- Superlatives and rankings. No “best psychiatrist in Nashik”, no “leading”, no “number one”. Advertising claims, and prohibited.
- Medicine names and doses. Reasoning on the disclaimer page.
- Self-assessment quizzes and symptom scores. A number generated by a web page is not a diagnosis, and people treat it as one.
- Descriptions of methods of self-harm or suicide. Not in warning signs, not in safety advice, nowhere. Detail in this area increases risk. This rule has no exception under any circumstance.
- Fear as persuasion. Frightening people into a clinic works briefly and then keeps them away for years.
- Guidance on treating an adult against their will, including covert medication. Families ask out of exhaustion rather than malice, and the answer is still no.
- Sponsored content of any kind. No pharmaceutical funding, no paid placements, no affiliate links. Nobody pays to be mentioned here.
- Identifiable patients. Case examples are fictional composites, labelled wherever they appear.
How this site is funded, and what that means
It is paid for by the practice. No advertising revenue, no sponsorship, no external funding. Which is worth saying plainly, because it is also the obvious conflict of interest: this is written by psychiatrists whose practice benefits if you decide to see a psychiatrist. We manage that by keeping the writing educational, by not pushing consultation, and by listing government and public options ahead of private ones on every resource page. You should still know the interest exists. Every health website has one. Most do not mention it.
If you want to use this material
Share links freely — with family, in a WhatsApp group, with a patient. That is what it is for. To reproduce or translate anything, write to us. We are usually glad to say yes.