The Solution to Depression May Have Been Accidentally Unearthed by a Computer Program.

A new study, published in Clinical Psychological Science, has discovered a class of words that can accurately assess whether someone is suffering from depression.

Irrespective of the true causes of depression, and some rather simple methods of curing it, the computer models use a few tools to reveal a consistent difference between the language of those who are depressed and those who are not.

There have been numerous studies linking low empathy with high depressive traits. As Ugo Uche explains,

“In the process of a person becoming more depressed, as he gets good at being able to deny his negative feelings, he consequently becomes good at denying the positive opposites of his negative feelings, hence a significant difficulty in being cognizant of any feelings, except the feelings of being dead inside oneself.”

Study: People With Depression Use Language Differently – Here’s How to Spot It.

Kurt Donald Cobain

(February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994)

A new study, published in Clinical Psychological Science, has discovered a class of words that can accurately assess whether someone is suffering from depression. Utilizing a technologically advanced set of linguistics algorithms, computerized models cull through massive data banks of spoken or written text in minutes to determine if someone shows signs of being depressed.

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