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Training on nonspecific platform information alone may fail to capture relevant keywords, especially for rarer outcomes not prominent in the heterogeneity of random and unlabeled social media chatter [55]. In addition, predefined keywords or word vectors may fail to capture slang or the different language structures between Reddit and Twitter [56]. The posts from respective subreddits were scraped using PRAW and PSAW python packages from January 6, 2019, to January 5, 2021. Of the subreddits where individuals were discussing diet, physical activities, substance use, alcohol, or smoking, we identified 22 that had been created before January 2019 and had more than 1,000 posts per subreddit.
- Take some time to learn more about enabling and the family disease of alcoholism, attend an Al-Anon meeting in your area.
- The only way to completely prevent alcohol-induced cardiomyopathy is not to drink alcohol at all.
- This can lead to inflammation and an increase in scar tissue, which can seriously impact your liver’s ability to function as it should.
- I didn’t initially seek out any help or counseling, but several months ago I started attending some AA meetings and I have a support group there.
- If you have a pattern of suddenly feeling very sick after consuming alcohol, you may have developed sudden onset alcohol intolerance.
On the weekends, I would probably drink 30 beers in a single day. I wouldn’t say I made a conscious decision to let alcohol take over, but at the same time I just stopped fighting. Sometimes, when I look back at the constant upheaval I experienced as a child, I think it may have contributed to my experience with alcohol as an adult. I was very shy growing up because I didn’t have a lot of friends.
When should I see my healthcare provider?
If you’re concerned that concurrent use of alcohol and sleeping pills is impacting your health or that of someone close to you, substance abuse treatment programs can help. American Addiction Centers, parent company of Alcohol.org, is a nationwide provider of addiction treatment facilities. AAC’s admissions navigators sober house are available 24/7 to discuss your treatment options today. The recommended daily limits are not meant to be averaged over a week, either. In other words, if you abstain Monday through Thursday and have two or three drinks a night on the weekend, those weekend drinks count as excessive consumption.
If you have been diagnosed with high blood pressure, also known as hypertension, your health care professional may advise you to reduce the amount of alcohol you drink. There is rebuilding I need to do in my relationships with my family. I stopped talking to my buddy Dennis and I stopped going to see my brother for years because I was really embarrassed about how I looked and where I was at with my drinking. Now, I’m trying to be involved in their lives again, but it’s a process. I can’t just snap my fingers and repair all those relationships. In general, you should talk to your healthcare provider if you notice changes in your symptoms over time, especially if they are starting to affect your normal life and routine.
3 Engagement across broader groups
BERT focuses on learning by analyzing sentences with randomly masked words. This masked language model deconstructs larger strings into smaller tokens and is ideal for dealing with hashtags and other platform-unique token structures [57]. Before developing BERT, previous models, such as long-short–term memory networks, logistic regression, Word2vec similarity, and latent Dirichlet allocation, were not well suited to process unknown words and hashtag structures. In contrast, using hashtags and themed communities as explicit labels in a deep learning architecture allows for identifying relevant, platform-specific hashtags that can identify posts that indicate the behavior of interest.
We would like to further highlight that the focus of the research was not on the intricacies of the nature of the four health behaviors while shortlisting the subreddits. As observed in S1 Table in S1 File, Physical Activity broader group may have been biased with outdoor physical activity subreddits compared to indoor physical activity subreddits such as Yoga or HIIT. Similarly, certain substances might be easier to obtain and might have contributed more to the discussions within subreddits from Substance Use broader group. Moreover, similar to self-reporting on health behaviors, posting about quitting smoking, illicit substances, or alcohol is not evidence that the users have quit smoking, stopped alcohol consumption, or ceased substance use. This conversation-action gap could potentially be alleviated by considering multiple modalities of user data, while it potentially comes at the cost of user privacy.
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