Our findings reveal significant differences on the use of function words, such as adverbs and verb tense, and topic-specific vocabulary, such as biological processes. As for emotional expression, we observe that affected users tend to share emotions more regularly than control individuals on average. Overall, the monthly posting variance of the affected groups is higher than the control groups. Moreover, we found evidence suggesting that language use on micro-blogging platforms is less distinguishable for users who have a mental disorder than other less restrictive platforms. In particular, we observe on Twitter less quantifiable differences between affected and control groups compared to Reddit.
we observe that affected users tend to share emotions more regularly than control individuals on average.
For those who might not be able to understand this, what the researchers are saying is that mentally ill people tend to babble about their "feelings" online way too much.
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i got hairy legs that turn blonde in the sun and the kids would reach into the pool and rub my leg down so it was straight and watch the hair come back up again. so i learned about roaches and kids jumping on my lap. and I loved kids jumping on my lap.
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