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Trauma lurking in the shadows: A Reddit case study of mental health issues in online posts about Childhood Sexual Abuse (2306.10338v1)

Published 17 Jun 2023 in cs.CY

Abstract: Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA) is a menace to society and has long-lasting effects on the mental health of the survivors. From time to time CSA survivors are haunted by various mental health issues in their lifetime. Proper care and attention towards CSA survivors facing mental health issues can drastically improve the mental health conditions of CSA survivors. Previous works leveraging online social media (OSM) data for understanding mental health issues haven't focused on mental health issues in individuals with CSA background. Our work fills this gap by studying Reddit posts related to CSA to understand their mental health issues. Mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are most commonly observed in posts with CSA background. Observable differences exist between posts related to mental health issues with and without CSA background. Keeping this difference in mind, for identifying mental health issues in posts with CSA exposure we develop a two-stage framework. The first stage involves classifying posts with and without CSA background and the second stage involves recognizing mental health issues in posts that are classified as belonging to CSA background. The top model in the first stage is able to achieve accuracy and f1-score (macro) of 96.26% and 96.24%. and in the second stage, the top model reports hamming score of 67.09%. Content Warning: Reader discretion is recommended as our study tackles topics such as child sexual abuse, molestation, etc.

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