r/mentalillness↗
Mental Illness
Discussions around mental health and medication. Not for professional advice!
171k subscribers614 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. <1% by known bots)544 authors / mosince 2009
r/mentalillness has 171k members (+6.8% over the last 12 months). It gets about 614 posts a month from 544 people. Top topics: Mental Health Disorders, Work Stress and Mental Health and PoetryAndMentalHealth.
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Share of the subreddit's posts
- Mental Health Disorders0.3%
- Work Stress and Mental Health0.2%
- PoetryAndMentalHealth0.1%
- Depression in College Students0.1%
- Pain and Poetry<0.1%
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- Medium
- Spotify
- Apple
- Biblegateway
- ChatGPT
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