Mental Health Disorder Detection Beyond Social Media: A Systematic Review of Available Datasets

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.03540v1
• Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:00:17 GMT
• Title: Mental Health Disorder Detection Beyond Social Media: A Systematic Review of Available Datasets
• Abstract summary: We present the first comprehensive review of non-social media, free-text datasets for mental health research.<n>We find that non-social media free-text based datasets are predominantly focused on English and on detecting depression.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Detecting mental health disorders in a timely manner is an important societal challenge. NLP and machine learning (ML) methods used to assist with detection rely on data collected primarily from social media. However, such datasets often have sampling biases and inherent ethical and privacy issues. One avenue to overcome these limitations is non-social media data. We present the first comprehensive review of non-social media, free-text datasets for mental health research. We use the PRISMA methodology to conduct our survey and we review datasets available in multiple languages. We find that non-social media free-text based datasets are predominantly focused on English and on detecting depression. These datasets also vary in demographics, platforms, data types, annotation techniques, and methodologies. This systematic review also reveals key gaps and highlights opportunities to develop more diverse, reliable and clinically-relevant resources.

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