Psychologists have long known that people with depression often have unhelpful, negative patterns of thinking, known as cognitive distortions. Bathina et al. now show that these thought patterns can be detected in the everyday language of social media and that individuals who report a diagnosis of depression express more cognitive distortions.
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Dozois, D.J.A. Depressive cognition on Twitter. Nat Hum Behav 5, 414–415 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01054-3
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