Reddit Mental Health Discussions on Suicide and Disorders

54,412 posts and comments were collected from mental health-related subreddits, including SuicideWatch, using the Reddit API and a web spider. The dataset, created by AIMH, focuses on discussions of suicide-related intention and disorders like depression, anxiety, and bipolar.

Use Cases

• Train a text classifier to detect mentions of suicide-related intention within forum discussions.
• Analyze linguistic patterns associated with mental disorders like depression and anxiety in social media text.
• Build a topic model to identify prevalent themes across 54,412 posts and comments from mental health subreddits.

Strengths

• Contains 54,412 text entries from targeted mental health forums.
• Focuses on specific, high-relevance topics: suicide ideation, depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder.
• Data was collected using the official Reddit API, suggesting structured sourcing.

Limitations

• The sample may be biased towards English-speaking Reddit users, primarily from the 'us' region tag.
• Lacks column definitions and sample data, making initial exploration and modeling preparation difficult.
• Text data from social media may contain noise, informal language, and require significant preprocessing for clinical applications.

Provenance

Source

Mental health-related subreddits on Reddit.com, including SuicideWatch.

Collection Method

Collected using the Reddit official API and a developed web spider.

Freshness

Last updated on 2023-11-24.

Geography

Primarily United States (inferred from 'Regionus' tag).