M-Help: Using Social Media Data to Detect Mental Health Help-Seeking Signals

Msvpj Sathvik, Zuhair Hasan Shaik, Vivek Gupta


Abstract
Mental health disorders are a global crisis. While various datasets exist for detecting such disorders, there remains a critical gap in identifying individuals actively seeking help. This paper introduces a novel dataset, M-Help, specifically designed to detect help-seeking behavior on social media. The dataset goes beyond traditional labels by identifying not only help-seeking activity but also specific mental health disorders and their underlying causes, such as relationship challenges or financial stressors. AI models trained on M-Help can address three key tasks: identifying help-seekers, diagnosing mental health conditions, and uncovering the root causes of issues.
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2025.findings-emnlp.1225
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
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November
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2025
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Suzhou, China
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Christos Christodoulopoulos, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Carolyn Rose, Violet Peng
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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10.18653/v1/2025.findings-emnlp.1225
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Msvpj Sathvik, Zuhair Hasan Shaik, and Vivek Gupta. 2025. M-Help: Using Social Media Data to Detect Mental Health Help-Seeking Signals. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025, pages 22510–22520, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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