Help support a mental health sufferer promote their Kickstarter campaign “A Journey to Hope”.

Katie Houghton set up a Facebook page for those who suffer from mental health or know someone who does https://www.facebook.com/mentalhealthrecoveryhope/.

She sends “Happy Posts” to those struggling with mental illness (Free and funded totally by her with some help from
People who occasionally donate stamps)

She said:” I have written a book based on my mental health journey that I hope to get published whether self-published or otherwise I want to get my story out there to raise awareness on mental health!

It’s something that is extremely important to me and has been a very long time coming!!”

She added: “From growing up in less than desirable circumstances to my battle with anorexia, three inpatient admissions, some terrible NHS treatment that needs highlighting.

Then another struggle to be diagnosed with bipolar disorder which was initially ignored by the NHS after a private diagnosis which resulted in 3 further inpatient admissions.

I feel the need to try and get an honest account out there!

“However! To do this it needs editing, and this isn’t something I can do by myself, and so I have set up a Kickstarter to try and raise some of the funds to towards this!”

Check out her Kickstarter campaign page.

Any donations are not given to Katie herself unless the goal is reached, so it’s an all or nothing campaign.

Money is not taken until the campaign has finished and if she hits the full target she has an editor waiting help get her story out there!

It is so hard these days to get a message out there, and Katie is hoping you will be willing to share and support her!

Social media’s most popular network Facebook is currently tracking API’s to reduce the number of suicides.

The social media giants are testing tools to see if they can help track suicidal users by using artificial intelligence to identify posts they hope will make it easier for other people to report them.

An article on newscientist.com said that “Facebook will use pattern algorithms to spot posts that could indicate someone is suicidal and help their friends to flag this content by making the option to report posts about “suicide and self-injury”.

The algorithms are trained on posts that have previously been reported.”

It added that “Facebook will also use pattern recognition to flag posts “very likely to include thoughts of suicide” so that its community operations team can take action even if the post is not reported.”

Why don’t I think this will work?

I don’t think that Facebook API will help reduce the number of people killing themselves because some people who write these posts will be challenging to track down.

People whose comments sound suicidal might be picked up when they are exaggerated.

The new initiative aims to pick up on people posting videos to Facebook and encourage friends of the suicidal person to refer them to helplines.

Many people suffering from mental health issues are in denial, so even if their friends try to get them help, there’s a chance that the suicidal person can reject the offer.

The system is currently being tested on a small number of people in the US.

What are your thoughts on facebooks API helping to reduce suicide rates?

Comment below or join in the discussions on our Twitter, Facebook or Instagram.

Social media’s most popular network Facebooks APIs are currently tracking posts to cut down suicide rates.

The social media giants are testing tools such as Facebooks APIs to see if they can help track suicidal users by using artificial intelligence to identify concerning posts which they hope will make it easier for other people to report them.

An article on newscientist.com said that “Facebook will use pattern algorithms to spot posts that could indicate someone is suicidal and help their friends to flag this content by making the option to report posts about “suicide and self-injury” more prominent for those that are considered potentially concerning.

The algorithms are trained on posts that have previously been reported.”

It added that “Facebook will also use pattern recognition to flag posts “very likely to include thoughts of suicide” so that its community operations team can take action even if the post is not reported.”

Why I don’t think this will work?

I don’t think that Facebooks APIs will help to reduce suicide rates because some people who write these posts will be difficult to track down and also people whose comments sound suicidal might be picked up when they are misunderstood.

The new initiative aims to pick up on people who are also posting videos to Facebook and encourage friends of the suicidal person to refer them to helplines.

Lots of people who are suffering from mental health issues are in denial so even if their friends try to get them help, there’s a chance that the suicidal person can reject the offer.

The system is currently being tested on a small number of people in the US.

What are your thoughts on Facebooks APIs helping to reduce suicide rates?

Comment below or join in the discussions on our Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram