Datasets:

Noobie314
/

mental-health-posts-dataset

license: mit
task_categories:
  - text-classification
language:
  - en
tags:
  - emotion-detection
  - nlp
  - emotion-classification
  - mental-health
pretty_name: Mental Health Posts Dataset
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K

🧠 Mental Health Posts Dataset

This dataset is curated for mental health emotion classification tasks. It originates from the Counsel Chat Dataset available on Kaggle and has been preprocessed and restructured to suit NLP-based classification models.

📄 Overview

The dataset is designed to support the training and evaluation of models that classify user-generated mental health posts into one of the following categories:

depression
anxiety
suicidal
addiction
eating_disorder

These categories represent primary mental health concerns commonly discussed in therapy or support communities.

📁 Files and Structure

✅ `/trainingData/final_sampled_dataset.csv`

Source: Combined 20% samples from five individual emotion category files (from Kaggle).
Columns:
- posts: The actual text content of the mental health post.
- main_label: The main category label for classification.
- sub_label: A finer-grained label, not used in this version of the model.

✅ `/testingData/final_dataset2.csv`

Source: Posts collected from Reddit-like sources used as a separate test set.
Columns:
- selftext: The post content.
- subreddit: The subreddit name used as a proxy label (e.g., depression, anxiety, etc.).

🛠️ Construction Details

20% data was sampled from each category file of the Counsel Chat Dataset.
Merged into a unified format for training.
Testing data was kept separate to ensure generalization from a different distribution.

🔍 Use Cases

This dataset supports:

Emotion classification model training.
Mental health support system simulations.
Research on text-based diagnostic AI in psychology.

📜 Source

Original Dataset: Counsel Chat Dataset on Kaggle
Author: Noobie314
License: Educational & Research Use Only. Respect original Kaggle dataset licensing terms.

🤝 Citation

@misc{mentalhealthdataset2025,
  author       = {Noobie314},
  title        = {Mental Health Posts Dataset},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/Noobie314/mental-health-posts-dataset}
}