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In the digital era, the prevalence of depressive symptoms expressed on social media has raised serious concerns, necessitating advanced methodologies for timely detection. This paper addresses the challenge of interpretable depression…

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Opioid and substance misuse is rampant in the United States today, with the phenomenon known as the "opioid crisis". The relationship between substance use and mental health has been extensively studied, with one possible relationship…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Usha Lokala , Orchid Chetia Phukan , Triyasha Ghosh Dastidar , Francois Lamy , Raminta Daniulaityte , Amit Sheth

Platforms like Reddit and Twitter offer internet users an opportunity to talk about diverse issues, including those pertaining to physical and mental health. Some of these forums also function as a safe space for severely distressed mental…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Sagar Joglekar , Sumithra Velupillai , Rina Dutta , Nishanth Sastry

Every day, users generate digital traces (e.g., social media posts, chats, and online interactions) that are inherently timestamped and may reflect aspects of their mental state. These traces can be organized into temporal trajectories that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Loris Belcastro , Francesco Gervino , Fabrizio Marozzo , Domenico Talia , Paolo Trunfio

Depression is a global burden and one of the most challenging mental health conditions to control. Experts can detect its severity early using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) questionnaire, administer appropriate medication to patients,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Richard Kimera , Daniela N. Rim , Joseph Kirabira , Ubong Godwin Udomah , Heeyoul Choi

The COVID-19 pandemic has placed a severe mental strain on people in general, and on young people in particular. Online support forums offer opportunities for peer-to-peer health support, which can ease pressure on professional and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Fathima Rushda Balabaskaran , Annabel Jones-Gammon , Rebecca How , Jennifer Cole

Due to the worldwide accessibility to the Internet along with the continuous advances in mobile technologies, physical and digital worlds have become completely blended, and the proliferation of social media platforms has taken a leading…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Esteban A. Ríssola , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Fabio Crestani

Amid growing global mental health concerns, particularly among vulnerable groups, natural language processing offers a tremendous potential for early detection and intervention of people's mental disorders via analyzing their postings and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Haijian Shao , Ming Zhu , Shengjie Zhai

Mental illness affects a significant portion of the worldwide population. Online mental health forums can provide a supportive environment for those afflicted and also generate a large amount of data which can be mined to predict mental…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Derek Howard , Marta Maslej , Justin Lee , Jacob Ritchie , Geoffrey Woollard , Leon French

Reddit is a major venue for mental-health information interaction and peer support, where privacy concerns increasingly surface in user discourse. Thus, we analyze privacy-related discussions across 14 mental-health and regulatory…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Jai Kruthunz Naveen Kumar , Aishwarya Umeshkumar Surani , Harkirat Singh , Sanchari Das

The increasing prevalence of mental disorders globally highlights the urgent need for effective digital screening methods that can be used in multilingual contexts. Most existing studies, however, focus on English data, overlooking critical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ana-Maria Bucur , Marcos Zampieri , Tharindu Ranasinghe , Fabio Crestani

This paper presents our system employed for the Social Media Mining for Health 2023 Shared Task 4: Binary classification of English Reddit posts self-reporting a social anxiety disorder diagnosis. We systematically investigate and contrast…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Sourabh Zanwar , Daniel Wiechmann , Yu Qiao , Elma Kerz

Mental health disorders may cause severe consequences on all the countries' economies and health. For example, the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as isolation and travel ban, can make us feel depressed. Identifying early signs of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Maryam Shahabikargar

This work proposes a transformer architecture for user-level classification of gambling addiction and depression that is trainable end-to-end. As opposed to other methods that operate at the post level, we process a set of social media…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Ana-Maria Bucur , Adrian Cosma , Liviu P. Dinu , Paolo Rosso

Depression has affected millions of people worldwide and has become one of the most common mental disorders. Early mental disorder detection can reduce costs for public health agencies and prevent other major comorbidities. Additionally,…

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Social media has been considered as a data source for tracking disease. However, most analyses are based on models that prioritize strong correlation with population-level disease rates over determining whether or not specific individual…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-04-14 Todd Bodnar , Victoria C Barclay , Nilam Ram , Conrad S Tucker , Marcel Salathé

Preliminary detection of mild depression could immensely help in effective treatment of the common mental health disorder. Due to the lack of proper awareness and the ample mix of stigmas and misconceptions present within the society,…

Suicide is a critical global health problem involving more than 700,000 deaths yearly, particularly among young adults. Many people express their suicidal thoughts on social media platforms such as Reddit. This paper evaluates the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Khalid Hasan , Jamil Saquer

Depression, a prominent contributor to global disability, affects a substantial portion of the population. Efforts to detect depression from social media texts have been prevalent, yet only a few works explored depression detection from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 David Gimeno-Gómez , Ana-Maria Bucur , Adrian Cosma , Carlos-David Martínez-Hinarejos , Paolo Rosso

Background: Reliable prediction of clinical progression over time can improve the outcomes of depression. Little work has been done integrating various risk factors for depression, to determine the combinations of factors with the greatest…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-06 Runa Bhaumik , Jonathan Stange