Social Media Mining to Understand Public Mental Health
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In this paper, we apply text mining and topic modelling to understand public mental health. We focus on identifying common mental health topics across two anonymous social media platforms: Reddit and a mobile journalling/mood-tracking app. Furthermore, we analyze journals from the app to uncover relationships between topics, journal visibility (private vs. visible to other users of the app), and user-labelled sentiment. Our main findings are that 1) anxiety and depression are shared on both platforms; 2) users of the journalling app keep routine topics such as eating private, and these topics rarely appear on Reddit; and 3) sleep was a critical theme on the journalling app and had an unexpectedly negative sentiment.
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