Mental Currents, or the changing weather of mental-health attention

Field notes

Mental Currents uses relative search-interest indexes rather than absolute counts, allowing readers to compare the shape of each topic's trajectory without treating one condition as directly comparable in popularity to another. Its ranking view limits the effect of isolated spikes by comparing the first twelve months with the latest twelve, while a separate calendar-month view looks for recurring seasonality. The homepage reports spring as generally stronger across the series and late summer as often softer, while cautioning that the pattern does not explain why people search.