Predicting depression and suicidal tendencies by analyzing online activities using machine learning in android devices

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has brought about a profound transformation in the realm of technology, with Machine Learning (ML) within AI playing a crucial role in today's healthcare systems. Advanced systems with intellectual abilities resembling those of humans are being created and utilized to carry out intricate tasks. Applications like Object recognition, classification, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Natural Language processing (NLP), among others, have started producing magnificent results with algorithms trained on humongous data readily available these days. Keeping in view the socio-economic implications of the pandemic threat posed to the world by COVID-19, this research aims at improving the quality of life of people suffering from mild depression by timely diagnosing the symptoms using AI in android devices, especially phones. In cases of severe depression, which is highly likely to lead to suicide, valuable lives can also be saved if adequate help can be dispatched to such patients within time. This can be achieved using automatic analysis of users’ data including text messages, emails, voice calls and internet search history, among other mobile phone activities, using Text mining/ text analytics which is the process of deriving meaningful information from natural language text. Machine Learning models analyse the users’ behaviour continuously from text and voice communications and data, thereby identifying if there are any negative tendencies in the behaviour over a certain period of time, and by using this information make inferences about the mental health state of the patient and instantly request appropriate healthcare before it is too late. In this research, an android application capable of performing the aforementioned tasks in real-time has been developed and tested for various performance features with an average accuracy of 95%

Dying in Full Detail

In 'Dying in Full Detail' Jennifer Malkowski explores digital media's impact on one of documentary film's greatest taboos: the recording of death. Despite technological advances that allow for the easy creation and distribution of death footage, digital media often fail to live up to their promise to reveal the world in greater fidelity. Malkowski analyzes a wide range of death footage, from feature films about the terminally ill (Dying, Silverlake Life, Sick), to surreptitiously recorded suicides (The Bridge), to #BlackLivesMatter YouTube videos and their precursors. Contextualizing these recordings in the long history of attempts to capture the moment of death in American culture, Malkowski shows how digital media are unable to deliver death "in full detail," as its metaphysical truth remains beyond representation

All’s Well That Ends Well: Toward a Policy of Assisted Rational Suicide or Merely Enlightened Self-Determination?

The central purpose of this Article is to show that through the self determination of an individual\u27s life plan, not only is the full meaning of liberty acknowledged, the individual further recognizes that the very endowment of free will forms the basis of our right to individual freedom of action, [and] the right to carry into execution the things we freely choose to do

All’s Well That Ends Well: Toward a Policy of Assisted Rational Suicide or Merely Enlightened Self-Determination?

The central purpose of this Article is to show that through the self determination of an individual\u27s life plan, not only is the full meaning of liberty acknowledged, the individual further recognizes that the very endowment of free will forms the basis of our right to individual freedom of action, [and] the right to carry into execution the things we freely choose to do

A Cold of the Heart: Japan Strives to Normalize Depression

In 1999, the Japanese government began approving the use of SSRIs, those antidepressant medications including Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil that had years earlier triggered the "Prozac Revolution" in the United States. Before then, depression was not commonly diagnosed in Japan, and it was argued that the infrequency was due to cultural factors. Since 1999, however, rates of diagnosis have surged and depression has garnered increasing attention in the popular media. As a result, the mainstream conception of depression is shifting from that of a serious mental illness affecting a small number of individuals to a less severe condition from which virtually anyone can suffer. In short, depression is becoming "normalized." Based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in clinical settings in Tokyo from 2001 to 2003, this dissertation argues that Japan is "fertile ground" for the normalization of depression and that depression is increasingly resonating because of its ability to encapsulate the pressures and insecurity that are dominating the lives of many individuals. This normalization represents a medicalized response to a variety of novel stresses - especially layoffs, financial insecurity, and overwork - that many citizens are facing in the new millennium, with many of these stresses stemming from Japan's ongoing economic restructuring. Depression is emerging as a means of discussing the impact of these stresses on the lives of working adults, especially men. The increasing focus on depression, therefore, represents changes in social experience and the increasing recognition of those changes.By showing the degree to which the emerging understandings of depression in Japan are embedded in the socio-economic context and by comparing Japan's "depression boom" with America's Prozac Revolution, this dissertation examines depression's capacity to operate as an idiom of distress within which modes of personal suffering are imbricated with wider socio-economic forces

International Perspectives in Values-Based Mental Health Practice

This open access book offers essential information on values-based practice (VBP): the clinical skills involved, teamwork and person-centered care, links between values and evidence, and the importance of partnerships in shared decision-making. Different cultures have different values; for example, partnership in decision-making looks very different, from the highly individualized perspective of European and North American cultures to the collective and family-oriented perspectives common in South East Asia. In turn, African cultures offer yet another perspective, one that falls between these two extremes (called batho pele). The book will benefit everyone concerned with the practical challenges of delivering mental health services. Accordingly, all contributions are developed on the basis of case vignettes, and cover a range of situations in which values underlie tensions or uncertainties regarding how to proceed in clinical practice. Examples include the patient’s autonomy and best interest, the physician’s commitment to establishing high standards of clinical governance, clinical versus community best interest, institutional versus clinical interests, patients insisting on medically unsound but legal treatments etc. Thus far, VBP publications have mainly dealt with clinical scenarios involving individual values (of clinicians and patients). Our objective with this book is to develop a model of VBP that is culturally much broader in scope. As such, it offers a vital resource for mental health stakeholders in an increasingly inter-connected world. It also offers opportunities for cross-learning in values-based practice between cultures with very different clinical care traditions

International Perspectives in Values-Based Mental Health Practice

This open access book offers essential information on values-based practice (VBP): the clinical skills involved, teamwork and person-centered care, links between values and evidence, and the importance of partnerships in shared decision-making. Different cultures have different values; for example, partnership in decision-making looks very different, from the highly individualized perspective of European and North American cultures to the collective and family-oriented perspectives common in South East Asia. In turn, African cultures offer yet another perspective, one that falls between these two extremes (called batho pele). The book will benefit everyone concerned with the practical challenges of delivering mental health services. Accordingly, all contributions are developed on the basis of case vignettes, and cover a range of situations in which values underlie tensions or uncertainties regarding how to proceed in clinical practice. Examples include the patient’s autonomy and best interest, the physician’s commitment to establishing high standards of clinical governance, clinical versus community best interest, institutional versus clinical interests, patients insisting on medically unsound but legal treatments etc. Thus far, VBP publications have mainly dealt with clinical scenarios involving individual values (of clinicians and patients). Our objective with this book is to develop a model of VBP that is culturally much broader in scope. As such, it offers a vital resource for mental health stakeholders in an increasingly inter-connected world. It also offers opportunities for cross-learning in values-based practice between cultures with very different clinical care traditions