Understanding the Sociocultural Dimensions of Mental Health Discourse in Arabic-Language X Communities

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.08307v1
• Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:31:39 GMT
• Title: Understanding the Sociocultural Dimensions of Mental Health Discourse in Arabic-Language X Communities
• Abstract summary: We present an exploratory computational study of 8,147 tweets from 607 users classified by a GPT-4.1 personal-disclosure pipeline.<n>We focus on discourse related to borderline personality disorder (BPD), bipolar disorder, and ADHD.<n>The results suggest that in this corpus, Bipolar tweets contain more religious and medical vocabulary, BPD tweets contain more relational, identity, and emotional-distress vocabulary, and ADHD tweets more often focus on practical symptoms and medication management.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Computational mental health research has predominantly centered on English-speaking populations, leaving Arabic-language discourse comparatively under-examined. We present an exploratory computational study of 8,147 tweets from 607 users classified by a GPT-4.1 personal-disclosure pipeline as likely lived-experience authors in three condition-specific Arabic-language X (formerly Twitter) Communities. We focus on discourse related to borderline personality disorder (BPD), bipolar disorder, and ADHD, and characterize community-associated linguistic patterns using a multi-domain cultural keyword framework. The results suggest that in this corpus, Bipolar tweets contain more religious and medical vocabulary, BPD tweets contain more relational, identity, and emotional-distress vocabulary, and ADHD tweets more often focus on practical symptoms and medication management. We treat these patterns as hypothesis-generating rather than confirmatory because the corpus is imbalanced across conditions, some subcorpora are temporally concentrated, and the keyword framework is an initial operationalization rather than a validated measurement instrument. The paper contributes a reusable LLM-assisted personal-disclosure pipeline and an exploratory cultural keyword framework for Arabic mental health discourse.

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