We created this application to help the users suffering from mental health illness and comfort them. Merry Cacti is a reddit bot which finds the user's post which implies depressive and self destructive sentiments and replies happy thoughts and redirects them to our website where we provide a platform to help such users express themselves anonymously and help each other using a subreddit.

We at first extracted the data to train our model by using the reddit json file and then process the data to create a final csv file. We used nltk and spacy to pre-process the Reddit post text data and analyse if the text is suicidal or depressive, and comment on the post accordingly. We created a website where people can view our bot replies on Reddit and chat with our bot integrated into the website.