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Analyze Mental Health Disorders from Social Media: A Review

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Mental health disorders, also known as mental illnesses, are the conditions that most affect and paralyze millions of people around the world. One of the symptoms of people with mental health disorders has a habit of wanting to be alone. This causes mental patients to seek online media channels such as Facebook and Twitter to share their thoughts. The experiences gained from social media become a source of information that can be accessed openly and contains reliable information and behavioral patterns that affect the personality and psychology of users. Early detection and intervention is the best solution in treatment and care to deal with this health disorder. However, accurate and non-invasive early detection of mental health disorders is proving difficult. The purpose of this article is to conduct a literature study of classification algorithms to predict, prevent, and detect mental health disorders. Some of the algorithms studied include Random Forest, SVM, and Deep Learning.

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Maulana, A.T. et al. (2023). Analyze Mental Health Disorders from Social Media: A Review. In: Silhavy, R., Silhavy, P., Prokopova, Z. (eds) Data Science and Algorithms in Systems. CoMeSySo 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 597. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21438-7_5

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