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I was bored the other day and started to clean up my phone contacts. In the process, I found a name that I was familiar with.
Let’s just call her Xiao Yi. In the impression, she is a typical Pisces girl. When it rains heavily in Beijing, she will happily show you the lovely guy who hasn’t touched the rain in the middle of the night. More importantly, not only does she look good, she also wears it, and has a special look like the heroine of a Japanese drama.
But after she got married, there were fewer contacts.
In the last chat, she told me, She has a little postpartum depression, and often has the idea of ending herself. Because she did n’t understand it, she often commented on Weibo ’s trumpet and a Weibo called “Zoufan” to vent her emotions.
I found that This is a tree hole for people with depression and suicidal tendencies. There are desperate messages and guidance about the heart. These messages together paint a picture that resembles an eternal battlefield, both difficult, hopeless, and light.
1, Desperate Tree Holes
Zaifan, which means walking dead, the owner of Weibo, is a severe depression patient.
On March 18, 2012, one week before her graduation reply, she left a post on Weibo “I have depression, so I will die, there is no important reason, everyone does not have to I care about my departure. Bye bye. “ Then he bragged at the dormitory and resolutely left the world.
Today, it has over 1.6 million messages posted on Weibo, which was released in 2012, and is increasing at a rate of 6000 per month. From the cold Weibo data, she is An internet celebrity.
But in reality, not many people can accurately describe her full picture.
Even the classmates who had been in the same class for 4 years, her impression on her was vague: I just remember that she walked without looking at people.
But in the virtual world, more people know her than in the real world.
Most of the Weibo posts are within 50 words, most of which describe life feelings; because the brushwork is clean, short and powerful, and also has unique sadness. So infectious, so her fans areThis style is called Zaifan style .
△ Some classic quotations from @ 走 饭 微 博 < / p>
From December 29, 2009 to March 18, 2012, Zoufan posted a total of 1896 Weibos on his account, an average of 1.88 Weibos per day, each with an average of 35 words. In her Weibo, full of loneliness, sadness and gloomy emotions, she sketched out her pain for life with tracing.
From previous information, few people know that she has been taking medicines with meals, not to mention that she has been fighting depression.
She has long been eager to find friends on the Internet, and she is eager to be noticed and understood.
To ordinary people, talking on social platforms seems to be a dynamic expression.
But on Weibo, the text that looks ridiculous shows a sense of loneliness that is not understood. It’s like a blind shuttle on an abandoned lonely planet, surrounded by the sorrow of survival and the lonely self-talk.
△ “I really want someone to listen to my sadness. The school’s psychological consultation room waited for more than ten days before notifying me that I could go. It will take seven or eight days to go. “
When hope is disillusioned and desperate for help, death becomes a relief for her.
However, this incident made the society pay attention to the problem of depression. Even the “People’s Daily” discussed the meal incident on the 14th edition on June 5, 2012.
After the meal incident, eating meals began to be seen as an example of adolescent suicidal tendencies . Scholars have also begun to study and analyze from the perspective of identifying and interfering with adolescent suicidal tendencies.
The depressive group in the dinner message is just a microcosm of China’s huge group of depression patients.
Data from the World Health Organization in 2017 show that there are more than 54 million depression patients in China, which is equivalent to 4 depression patients out of 100.
If you include depression in your statistics, this number becomes even more alarming.
According to the data of the “Chinese Urban Residents’ Mental Health White Paper” in 2018: In the survey of the mental health of urban residents in China, 73.6% of the respondents were in the state of mental sub-health.
These phenomena extended by rational data are even more sad.
Depression in more than half of every 250,000 suicides in Chinapatient. Almost every 20 seconds, one person commits suicide due to depression.
If you still do n’t believe this number, you just need to search for keywords in some apps, and you may realize, How common depression is in this era.
△ When searching for a keyword like “depression” or “depression” in a certain cloud, you can often find some playlists with a high volume of play < / p>
So, more and more people are paying attention to the phenomenon of eating Weibo and the huge depression group in which they are mapped, and some of them have the ability to help these people through technology.
In 2014, Zhu Tingzhang, head of the Computational Network Psychology Laboratory of the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, launched the PsyMap project.
PsyMap uses a web crawler to integrate the message messages for dinner, and then analyzes and screens the messages through AI. Finally, volunteers conduct psychological crisis intervention on people with suicidal intentions, trying to save lives before they come to an end.
From the official launch in 2017 to October 2019, the psychological map PsyMap sent a total of 4222 private intervention messages. Someone who received the message was thanked, scolded, and others have passed away.
The content of the private message is a questionnaire, which must be completed in order to enter the volunteerHelper link. Although process speech is simple and simple, it is also effective: every day from 18:00 to 22:00, volunteers will take turns to chat with users who have completed the questionnaire in groups of two.
Their silent efforts are not useless. On Weibo, more and more volunteers have begun to join them. And those who are haunted by haze are also stepping out of depression with its efforts.
But mental maps are not alone. More and more people are trying to help depression patients through the combination of AI technology and the Internet.
On April 2, 2018, Huang Zhisheng, a professor of artificial intelligence at the Free University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, launched the “Tree Cave Project.”
△ Huang Zhisheng
The logic of the tree hole plan to find endangered patients with depression is not much different from the mental map. They use AI to screen, grade, and then intervene.
The difference is that the level of suicide risk in the tree hole program is more clearly graded.
The tenth level is the highest level, that is, suicide is beginning; the ninth level has a clear suicide plan. Subsequent levels decreased in order of pessimism, and below level 6, volunteers generally did not directly intervene.
△ Sudden danger rating of the tree hole plan
In addition, the scope of the tree hole plan is wider than the mental map, and the intervention method is more gentle and clever.
A severe depression patient thinks that the psychological map’s intervention form does not take their feelings into account.
The tree hole program is directly involved in volunteers after analysis. “They don’t talk to you, they have to do a good job; that is to talk to you about what they usually like, maybe they analyzed it based on the information on Weibo.” She felt this kind of companionship was warm.
△ Screening program for the tree hole plan
AI is used for detection, but when it comes to an emergency, the positioning needs to be analyzed by volunteers.
Currently, there are 600 volunteers in the tree cave program. In the past year and a half, 700 light births have been saved. In a sense, this is a war against death, a protracted war.
Because of falling in love and hanging up because you do n’t have the money, these stories you only see and hear across the screen are performed every day in the volunteer group.
In an interview with the BBC, a senior volunteer who joined the Tree Cave Rescue Team for one and a half years concluded that “rescue requires both luck and experience.”
For example, in order to save a patient who tried to commit suicide in a hotel, they found 8 similar hotels based on online information. Because they have no initiative, they can only ask the front desk one by one. In the end, they still passed the tone of the front desk. Change determines the location.
△ This volunteer has to chat with 8 rescuers every day, which has made her quite tired
But rescuing them is only the first step for them to help patients with severe depression. In the future, they will establish contact with the light-lived people, accompany each other daily, psychological counseling, and ask them if they have breakfast on time today and are unhappy.
This is also the hard way for volunteers.
Along with the night and evening, no one hopes that the “he” he once cared for will happen again, and for the sensitive group, their communication skills are slightly lacking, which is likely to hurt sensitive depression patients again . And sometimes when the complaints of depression patients are too fierce and turbulent, sometimes the ultimate problem that is repeated over and over again will make them completely patient.
How to help these depression patients return to society is also a practical issue that they consider.
Huang Zhisheng hopes to combine the online tree hole plan with the offline rehabilitation center to make a set of industries to provide jobs for those who need help, and they need investment.
After the news about AI intervention in depression treatment began to enter the public’s perspective, some pharmaceutical companies, companies, and institutions began to find Huang Zhisheng, hoping to use them to promote drugs and medical services to patients with depression. But all were declined by Professor Huang, because he knew what was more important than monetization: “Business is business, saving people is saving people.”
Every day, the tree hole program can save 1-2 babies, but for the huge potential babies on the Internet, it’s just a drop in the bucket.
In terms of practitioners, although AI can detect depression and suicidal tendency in advance, it is only a firewall, the last line of defense, and should not be the front line. It’s not technology, but tactile care that really allows depression patients to come out of the haze.
Mr. Lu Xun said, “Human sorrow and joy are not connected.” I agree that it is really hard to compare the heart with the heart.
But this does not prevent us from treating everyone around us with kindness. Starting with the complaints and arrogance of the circle of friends, what happened softly may make them feel that they are not alone in this world.
After I stopped writing, I opened the old friend’s Weibo again and saw that she had a second child and smiled sweetly on the photo. I gently sent her a private letter and asked her how she was doing recently.
Reference:
1.https: //www.cs.vu.nl/~huang/
2.https: //www.sixthtone.com/news/1004104/keeping-an-ear-to-weibos-suicidal -whispers
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