Exploring Depression Symptoms through Similarity Methods in Social Media Posts

Abstract

Regardless of age, gender, or color, depression affects people all over the world. People feel increasingly at ease sharing their opinions on social networking sites practically every day in the present era of communication and technology. Reddit is a social networking site consisting of subreddits, or single-topic communities, created, maintained, and frequented by anonymous users. Users have the ability to post, comment on, and reply to posts within subreddits. Data for this suggested model is gathered from user posts on Reddit. Our approach involves ranking sentences from a collection of Reddit posts according to their relevance to a depression symptom for the 21 symptoms of depression from the BDI-II Questionnaire. © 2023 Copyright for this paper by its authors.