Analysis code and results for the study
Understanding the countermovement to online presentations of psychiatric disorder that are perceived as ‘faked’
Published as:
Bell, V., White, R., Foulkes, L. (2025) Understanding the countermovement to online presentations of psychiatric disorder that are perceived as ‘faked’. Journal of Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2025.2558503
This archive contains the Python code for the analysis reported in the above study. The code is presented as a Jupyter notebook which are documents that combine both code and the output in a form that can be viewed online, but also re-run and the results reproduced when accompanied by the original dataset.
Data from the r/FakeDisorderCringe subreddit used in this analysis was downloaded from the public PushShift archive mirror available at https://the-eye.eu/redarcs/
This repository contains:
- fdc_topicmodelling_analysis.ipynb - Jupyter notebook that contains the reproducible analysis