  Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA) is a menace to society and has long-lasting
effects on the mental health of the survivors. From time to time CSA survivors
are haunted by various mental health issues in their lifetime. Proper care and
attention towards CSA survivors facing mental health issues can drastically
improve the mental health conditions of CSA survivors. Previous works
leveraging online social media (OSM) data for understanding mental health
issues haven't focused on mental health issues in individuals with CSA
background. Our work fills this gap by studying Reddit posts related to CSA to
understand their mental health issues. Mental health issues such as depression,
anxiety, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are most commonly observed
in posts with CSA background. Observable differences exist between posts
related to mental health issues with and without CSA background. Keeping this
difference in mind, for identifying mental health issues in posts with CSA
exposure we develop a two-stage framework. The first stage involves classifying
posts with and without CSA background and the second stage involves recognizing
mental health issues in posts that are classified as belonging to CSA
background. The top model in the first stage is able to achieve accuracy and
f1-score (macro) of 96.26% and 96.24%. and in the second stage, the top model
reports hamming score of 67.09%. Content Warning: Reader discretion is
recommended as our study tackles topics such as child sexual abuse,
molestation, etc.
