# Not Just Depressed: Bipolar Disorder Prediction on Reddit

**Authors:** Ivan Sekulić, Matej Gjurković, Jan Šnajder  
**arXiv:** [1811.04655](https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04655)  
**Date:** 2018-11-12  
**Summary page:** https://www.summarizepaper.com/fr/paper/1811.04655v2/

## Abstract

Bipolar disorder, an illness characterized by manic and depressive episodes, affects more than 60 million people worldwide. We present a preliminary study on bipolar disorder prediction from user-generated text on Reddit, which relies on users' self-reported labels. Our benchmark classifiers for bipolar disorder prediction outperform the baselines and reach accuracy and F1-scores of above 86%. Feature analysis shows interesting differences in language use between users with bipolar disorders and the control group, including differences in the use of emotion-expressive words.