Mental Health / Search Trends
A decade of mental-health attention.
Explore how public search interest across 12 mental-health topics rises, recedes and returns. This is one signal of attention, not a measure of diagnosis or prevalence.
Selected signalADHD+204%
Change from the first 12-month average to the latest 12-month average.
Mental-health conversations have changed substantially over the past decade. The language people use, and the subjects they seek out, has moved with them.
Search behavior cannot tell us how many people have a condition. It can reveal where public attention and information-seeking are changing. Across 121 months of data, two trajectories stand apart.
Complete 2017 vs. 2025
Complete 2017 vs. 2025
What is changing?Twelve lines.
Twelve lines.
Twelve different stories.
Turn topics on or off to compare their trajectories. Each line is a relative index within that topic: compare the shape and change over time, not absolute popularity between conditions.
Relative search interest
Calculated from the workbook: ADHD has the strongest long-term rise, followed by dementia and OCD. Depression and personality-disorder interest are relatively stable across the full period, though recent months can still move sharply.
The yearly rhythmAttention has
Attention has
a calendar.
This view removes the long arc and averages observations by calendar month. It is designed to show recurring seasonality, not growth.
Across the 12 series, spring tends to run higher while late summer is often softer. The pattern varies by topic, and does not explain why people search.
Fastest-changing topicsThe long-term
The long-term
shift, ranked.
Change compares the average of the first 12 months with the latest 12 months, limiting the influence of any single spike.
Rank / topicLong-term changeLatest YoYRecent average
1ADHD
+14%81.02Dementia
+26%88.43OCD
+20%85.44Eating disorder
+17%73.85Insomnia
+10%82.86Anxiety
+16%73.77PTSD
+20%78.88Schizophrenia
+15%83.29Addiction
+27%84.910Bipolar
+10%83.811Personality disorder
+0%49.312Depression
+20%71.2Condition explorerOne topic.
One topic.
In full.
Select a topic for its long-term trajectory, recent momentum and recurring seasonal pattern.
ADHD
First 12-month average to latest 12-month average.
Latest 12 months compared with the prior 12.
Highest average relative interest across the observed years.
ADHD shows an unusually steep, sustained rise across the decade. Its strongest historical calendar-month average occurs in Apr. Search behavior alone cannot establish why.
Seasonal pattern
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Questions for
the modern workplace.
Search data cannot explain employee experience. It can help leaders notice where the mental-health conversation is broadening and where benefits, communication, or manager education may deserve another look.
Focus is becoming a mental-health conversation.
Rising ADHD-related interest suggests a useful question: do employees understand the difference between ordinary distraction, burnout, and a condition that warrants professional assessment?
Access must fit around working life.
Telehealth has become a substantial part of mental-health treatment. Employers can evaluate whether benefits make care genuinely usable across schedules, locations, and job types.
The agenda is wider than anxiety and depression.
OCD, PTSD, addiction, eating disorders, and other conditions may require resources beyond a generic stress-management program.
Timing could matter.
Seasonal patterns can inform when resources are communicated, while never being used to diagnose or predict an individual employee.
Explore the dataSet your own
Set your own
view.
Choose a condition, adjust the date window, and switch between monthly detail and annual averages.
2016-062026-06
How to use this explorerLook for patterns.
Look for patterns.
Keep the limits.
Use the charts to compare direction, momentum, and seasonality within a topic. Do not use them to estimate prevalence, diagnose people, or rank conditions by raw popularity.
Read the methodology →Methodology & limitationsRead the pattern.
Read the pattern.
Know its limits.
The site analyzes 121 monthly observations for 12 mental-health search topics, spanning June 2016 through June 2026.
What the index means
The workbook contains relative Google search-interest scores. The index is not a count of searches. A value of 100 represents the peak relative popularity within the underlying series; other values are scaled to that peak.
What can and cannot be compared
Because each worksheet is indexed as its own series, the charts are strongest for comparing trajectory, rate of change and seasonal shape. A score of 80 for one topic should not be read as more raw searches than a score of 60 for another.
Derived measures
Long-term change compares the first 12-month average with the latest 12-month average. Recent momentum compares the latest 12 months with the preceding 12. Seasonal values average every observation for the same calendar month.
Interpret with care
Search interest is not clinical prevalence, diagnosis rate or treatment demand. Media coverage, cultural events, awareness campaigns, news cycles and platform changes may all influence behavior. Findings are indicators of information-seeking and public attention, not epidemiological evidence.