r/mentalhealth

Mental Health

Founded June 2008 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Sep 15

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

Members

701,242

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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.

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r/mentalhealth — frequently asked

How many members does r/mentalhealth have?

r/mentalhealth has 701,242 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 15. 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?

We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/mentalhealth yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.

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.

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?

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r/mentalhealth Subreddit Stats — 701K members