Bipolar disorder, an illness characterized by manic and depressive episodes, affects more than 60 million people worldwide. We present a preliminary study on bipolar disorder prediction from user-generated text on Reddit, which relies on users' self-reported labels. Our benchmark classifiers for bipolar disorder prediction outperform the baselines and reach accuracy and F1-scores of above 86%. Feature analysis shows interesting differences in language use between users with bipolar disorders and the control group, including differences in the use of emotion-expressive words.
@article{arxiv.1811.04655,
title = {Not Just Depressed: Bipolar Disorder Prediction on Reddit},
author = {Ivan Sekulić and Matej Gjurković and Jan Šnajder},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.04655},
year = {2019}
}