SMHD: A Large-Scale Resource for Exploring Online Language Usage for Multiple Mental Health Conditions

Understand

Mental health is a significant and growing public health concern.

• As language usage can be leveraged to obtain crucial insights into mental health conditions, there is a need for large-scale, labeled, mental health-related datasets of users who have been diagnosed with one or more of such conditions.
• In this paper, we investigate the creation of high-precision patterns to identify self-reported diagnoses of nine different mental health conditions, and obtain high-quality labeled data without the need for manual labelling.
• We introduce the SMHD (Self-reported Mental Health Diagnoses) dataset and make it available.