Depression Severity Detection from Social Media Posts

Regardless of age, gender, or color, mental health problems affect people all over the world. People feel increasingly at ease sharing their opinions on social networking sites (SNS) practically every day in the present era of communication and technology. Reddit is a social networking site that consists of subreddits, or single-topic communities, that are created, maintained, and frequented by anonymous users. The dataset used in the paper is, eRisk2021 dataset provided for task 3, which is used for depression severity measurement. It consists posts of Reddit users. In this paper, the approach involves finding user depression severity based on their Reddit history with the help of the BDI-II questionnaire, which is discussed. The paper provides three different approaches in finding the users depression severity from their social media data.