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Table 2 The 10 most frequently occurring words in each topic

From: What’s all the talk about? Topic modelling in a mental health Internet support group

Topic Label

Proportion of corpus (%)

Top 10 most frequent words

Social Relations

8.21

people person make feel good time understand life relationship wrong

Depression

7.20

depression feel people friends time years life anxiety work year

Anxiety

7.09

feel feeling anxiety bad time hard head thoughts sick day

Recovery Journey

6.11

life love feel pain world heart time hope find day

Daily Functioning

5.09

day sleep night today good work bed time morning tomorrow

Affection

5.01

hugs hope big good love thinking xxx hear hug happy

Family

4.83

family daughter kids mum mother son husband parents time children

Therapy

4.56

health mental good support psychologist therapy find talk psych psychiatrist

Medication

4.32

meds medication anxiety taking side depression effects weeks doctor dose

Mental Illness

4.13

people mental illness bipolar good depression disorder life problems important

BlueBoard

4.03

post read thread write writing posts squad mod people reading

Positive Change

3.34

life time years happy great love wonderful world part important

Co-created Fiction

2.85

[username]a eyes back [username]a head hand face tears water ship

Livelihood

2.79

money work job people pay Centrelinkb government system Australia health

Chat

2.72

lol beer dog cool awesome love gonna yeah [username]a [username]a

Parenting role

2.63

kids bit [username]a time school life stuff kinda mum daughter

Bipolar

2.50

bipolar depression mood disorder manic diagnosed meds normal mania diagnosis

Philosophy

1.97

world brain mind people god human women science society power

Entertainment

1.61

music love song play movie good watch book playing songs

Food and Drink

1.58

eat food tea eating water chocolate coffee good chicken drink

Drugs and Alcohol

1.14

alcohol drink drinking smoking shit drugs smoke drug stop weed

  1. aIn accordance with the study ethics protocol usernames have been omitted
  2. bCentrelink is an Australian Government organisation which provides social services and welfare payments