Corrections & editorial policy

Spotted an error?

If something on this site is wrong — a broken link, an outdated stat, a factual mistake, a date that's off, a name misspelled, a medication detail I got sideways — please tell me.

Email me at hello@brienblatt.com, or use the contact form. Include the URL of the page and what you think is wrong. I'd rather fix it than have it rot.

How I handle corrections

• Typos and small fixes get edited inline without a note. Not worth cluttering a post for a missing comma.
• Factual corrections get a visible Corrected on YYYY-MM-DD note at the bottom of the post, describing what changed and why.
• Substantive rewrites bump the post's updatedDate in frontmatter, which propagates to dateModified in the article schema and to the RSS feed.
• Retractions — if a whole post turns out to be wrong or harmful, I leave it up with a clear retraction notice at the top, rather than deleting it silently. Hiding mistakes doesn't fix them.

What I write about

Mental health posts are first-person experience — what happened to me, what helped, what didn't. I'm not a clinician. I don't claim to be. The disclaimer spells this out in full.

Tech posts are based on what I've shipped, broken, debugged, or read carefully. If I'm citing something I haven't tested myself, I link to the source.

Sources and citations

Where a stat or claim comes from a public source (a study, a health org, a documentation page), I link directly to it inline. If you spot a citation pointing somewhere it shouldn't, that's a correction worth flagging.

AI use

I use AI tools to help with drafts, research, and code. Every post on this site is then edited, fact-checked, and rewritten in my own voice before it goes live. The personal experiences are mine, not generated. If a piece doesn't sound like me, that's a bug, not a feature — flag it.

Updates and revisions

Posts get revised over time. The pubDate in the byline is the original publish date. If the post has been substantively revised, you'll see an Updated date alongside it. RSS subscribers get the more recent of the two so meaningful rewrites resurface.

Conflicts of interest

Affiliate links are disclosed on the affiliate disclosure page. I don't take paid placements, sponsored posts, or product reviews in exchange for compensation. If that ever changes, it'll be disclosed inline on the post itself, not buried.

Crisis content

Posts dealing with suicide, self-harm, hospitalization, and medication carry a crisis banner with active hotline info. If you find a YMYL post missing one, that's also a correction — let me know.