Treatment Options

If you have health issues or even life issues you will most likely benefit (and benefit others) through participation in dailystrength.org. This is social networking at its best. People form communities around health topics that interest them, answer questions for each other and share information about treatments. The treatments section is especially well done.

For example, at the Acne Support Group page you will find Top Treatments on the lower right side of the page. This is an unscientific - and I think extremely helpful - feature of the site. The top treatments are listed in order of how many people are using them. In the Acne Support Group, 213 members are using washing which makes it the most used. Each person then ranks how they think washing is working for them. Washing is deemed 70% effective by the 213 people in the Acne Support Group who say they use washing.

Notice, I'm using careful language here. As I mentioned before this is not a scientific study and it will not replace your doctor or other medical/health practitioner. I like it because it's an opportunity for people to compare notes on what they have tried and what has worked.

I also like the functionality of this feature. It's good database design with a good user interface.