Twitter is a great source of medical and health information. Yes I know, this may sound obvious but many medical professionals are unfamiliar with the benefits of social media and I still hear lots of misconceptions - like “Twitter is just for chitchat”.
Twitter has proven itself as the go-to…
monitoring
while riding to work i was musing on twitter and mental health.
i’ll have to go and search to see if it already exists, but i was thinking about the possibilities for people with bipolar or mood/affective diagnoses in terms of monitoring twitter streams. i was thinking that moving into a more manic phase may show more frequent tweets with any of the various elements of being in such a state appearing in content - as a monitoring tool this could be used to trigger earlier interventions to help people manage their condition. could probably even be an automated process to some degree.
will have a search and see what comes up.
