r/mentalhealth

Mental Health

Founded June 2008 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Aug 29

The mental health subreddit is the central forum to discuss, vent, support and share information about mental health, illness and wellness.

Members

695,263

695K

Online now

not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

271

from the last 100 posts, spanning 8.8h

Comments per post

no sample yet

Growth · 7d

not enough history yet

Growth · 30d

not enough history yet

Promo tolerance

not assessed yet

Last post

Aug 29

sampled Aug 29

Distinct posters

100%

of the last 100 posts

Tracking since Aug 29 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.

Member growth

Tracking since Aug 29 — growth charts appear after a week of history.

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r/mentalhealth — frequently asked

How many members does r/mentalhealth have?

r/mentalhealth has 695,263 members as of our most recent crawl on Aug 29. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.

Is r/mentalhealth growing?

We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/mentalhealth yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Aug 29; the chart fills in as history accumulates.

How active is r/mentalhealth?

Around 271 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 8.8h. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.

When was r/mentalhealth created?

r/mentalhealth was founded in June 2008 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.

Who posts in r/mentalhealth?

Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 100% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Aug 29. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.

Can I promote my product in r/mentalhealth?

We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/mentalhealth yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.

How do I monitor r/mentalhealth for mentions?

Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/mentalhealth into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.

Can my AI agent read r/mentalhealth's stats?

Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/mentalhealth's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.

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