Emotion-based Modeling of Mental Disorders on Social Media

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.09451v1
• Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 04:41:02 GMT
• Title: Emotion-based Modeling of Mental Disorders on Social Media
• Authors: Xiaobo Guo, Yaojia Sun, Soroush Vosoughi
• Abstract summary: One in four people will be affected by mental disorders at some point in their lives. We propose a model for passively detecting mental disorders using conversations on Reddit.
• Score: 11.945854832533234
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one in four people will be affected by mental disorders at some point in their lives. However, in many parts of the world, patients do not actively seek professional diagnosis because of stigma attached to mental illness, ignorance of mental health and its associated symptoms. In this paper, we propose a model for passively detecting mental disorders using conversations on Reddit. Specifically, we focus on a subset of mental disorders that are characterized by distinct emotional patterns (henceforth called emotional disorders): major depressive, anxiety, and bipolar disorders. Through passive (i.e., unprompted) detection, we can encourage patients to seek diagnosis and treatment for mental disorders. Our proposed model is different from other work in this area in that our model is based entirely on the emotional states, and the transition between these states of users on Reddit, whereas prior work is typically based on content-based representations (e.g., n-grams, language model embeddings, etc). We show that content-based representation is affected by domain and topic bias and thus does not generalize, while our model, on the other hand, suppresses topic-specific information and thus generalizes well across different topics and times. We conduct experiments on our model's ability to detect different emotional disorders and on the generalizability of our model. Our experiments show that while our model performs comparably to content-based models, such as BERT, it generalizes much better across time and topic.

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