Self-Reported Mental Health Diagnoses (SMHD) dataset

The SMHD (Self-Reported Mental Health Diagnoses) dataset consists of Reddit posts of users who have claimed to have been diagnosed with one or several of nine mental health conditions ("diagnosed users"), and matched control users. All posts made to mental health-related subreddits or containing keywords related to a mental health condition were removed from the diagnosed users' data; control users' data do not contain such posts due to the selection process.

SMHD contains nine mental health conditions with diagnosed users.

Condition	Total Users	Total Posts	Users (train)	Users (dev)	Users (test)	Users (RC)
ADHD	10,098	872K	1,768	1,747	1,779	4,804
Anxiety	8,783	795K	1,711	1,593	1,675	3,804
Autism	2,911	248K	479	480	517	1,435
Bipolar	6,434	575K	1,216	1,182	1,247	2,789
Depression	14,139	1,272K	2,662	2,574	2,611	6,292
Eating	598	53K	104	115	112	267
OCD	2,336	203K	409	477	390	1,060
PTSD	2,894	258K	528	516	558	1,292
Schizophrenia	1,331	123K	238	278	267	548
Control	335,952	116M	92,725	92,421	94,415	56,391

Further dataset construction details are available in Section 3 of the COLING 2018 paper SMHD: A Large-Scale Resource for Exploring Online Language Usage for Multiple Mental Health Conditions.

Information on obtaining this dataset can be found here.

Citation


  @InProceedings{cohan2018smhd,
  author    = {Cohan, Arman and Desmet, Bart and Yates, Andrew and Soldaini, Luca and MacAvaney, Sean and Goharian, Nazli},
  title     = {SMHD: A Large-Scale Resource for Exploring Online Language Usage for Multiple Mental Health Conditions},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)},
  year      = {2018},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {1485–-1497},
  url       = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/C18-1126}
  }

Contact Information

For any comments or questions, please email Arman, Bart or Andrew.