<![CDATA[Mental health is a significant issue in the modern era due to lifestyle changes, social pressures, and technological advancements that introduce new challenges. These problems affect various aspects of life, including education, employment, social relationships, and overall quality of life. Technological development enables the use of machine learning to automatically classify large amounts of data. This study aims to analyze and compare the performance of Support Vector Machines (SVM), K-Nearest Neighbor (K-NN), Naïve Bayes (NB), Logistic Regression (LR), Decision Tree (DT), and Random Forest (RF) in sentiment classification on mental health issues, while simultaneously contributing to scientific development and supporting the understanding of public psychological conditions. The dataset used in this research was obtained from Kaggle and consists of 20,364 mental health–related reviews in .CSV format, processed using Google Colab with the Python programming language. The data were categorized into two groups—depression and suicidewatch—and then underwent preprocessing, data splitting into training and testing sets with an 80:20 ratio, and TF-IDF weighting. The results indicate that the SVM algorithm outperforms the other methods. Using an RBF kernel and a C parameter of 15, SVM achieved an accuracy of 72.09%, a precision of 72.11%, a recall of 72.09%, and an F1-score of 72.09%. This study not only provides scientific contributions but also supports efforts to better understand the psychological conditions experienced by society.]]>
