Medium “Mental Health” tag statistics
How busy the Mental Health tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is very high, and the tag is mixed for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 799 stories from the last 2.3 days
Busier than 85% of 73 tracked tags
27% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 348 stories a day, Mental Health is busier than 85% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (28,199 followers per daily story) is higher than 44% of tags — fewer readers per story than average.
65% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 27% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 40% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 4.8 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Mental Health stories
| Publication | Followers | Mental Health stories (last 2.3d) |
|---|---|---|
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 69 |
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 33 |
| Nudge | 838 | 19 |
| Activated Thinker | 40K | 18 |
| Write Your World | 12K | 17 |
| No Time | 14K | 16 |
| Pen With Paper | 22K | 16 |
| The Gravity | 2.1K | 15 |
| RB-Tech | 11 | 12 |
| Infinite Impulse | 4.8K | 11 |
Top Mental Health stories right now
- We Need to Stop Romanticising the Pressure to Keep Art as a Side Hustle
- The Health Effects of Spending Too Much Time Indoors
- Magnesium Glycinate: 7 Potential Benefits for Better Sleep, Relaxation, and Overall Health
- The One Big Beautiful Bill Act Implements Multiple Cruelties After The Midterms
- In the Worst of Times, in Every Era, Creators Still Must Create
- How to Rest Without Feeling Lazy
- When Thinking Feels Expensive: The Science Behind Brain Fog, Neuroinflammation, and Cognitive Aging
- 160 Hours of Hard Exercise Since January — Want To Know What’s Changed?
- Venting Doesn’t Drain the Anger. It Practices It.
- Judged by a Ghost: Why We Punish Our Present for the Promises of Our Past
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Mental Health tag on Medium?
- About 348 per day (2,435 per week), based on 799 stories published in the 2.3-day window before our last scan. The tag has 632,700 stories in total.
- Is the Mental Health tag competitive?
- Competition is very high: it is busier than 85% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 28,199 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Mental Health?
- 27% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is mixed for newcomers. 65% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.