arXiv:2606. 27247v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In NLP, mental health conditions are often modeled as isolated phenomena, without interpersonal context.
By Parmitha Vangapandu, Sai Ganesh Mokkapati, Sathwik Narkedimilli, MSVPJ Sathvik, Timothy Liu, Simon See, Johannes C. Eichstaedt
OpenAI collaborated with 170+ mental health experts to improve ChatGPT’s ability to recognize distress, respond empathetically, and guide users toward real-world support—reducing unsafe responses by up to 80%. Learn how we’re making ChatGPT safer and more supportive in sensitive moments.
arXiv:2607. 16712v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We describe DS@GT's submission to the eRisk 2026 Task 1 challenge on conversational depression screening, in which systems interview LLM personas that simulate individuals with varying depression profiles and produce a Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II) score plus four key symptoms per persona, without directly asking sensitive mental health questions.
By Victor Gong, David Guecha
arXiv:2608. 07316v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Natural Language Processing (NLP) models predicting mental health outcomes rarely specify what they measure: contextual knowledge, emotional content, or syntactic structure.
By Edoardo Sebastiano De Duro, Emma Franchino, Massimo Stella
arXiv:2608. 10672v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Social interaction has become one of the most common uses of LLMs, yet research on emotional bonds with AI has focused largely on how users experience these systems, leaving the systems' role in relationship formation poorly understood.
By Lisa M\"uhl, Jessica M. Szczuka
arXiv:2606. 19640v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI and large language models (LLMs) have emerged as promising tools to address global mental health challenges.
By Yunkai Xu, Saeed Abdullah
arXiv:2606. 04150v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Public discourse and emerging policy typically assume that AI emotional support is a deliberate act: a lonely user consciously seeking comfort from a dedicated companion chatbot.
By Yaoxi Shi, Cathy Mengying Fang, Pattie Maez, Amit Goldenberg
arXiv:2607. 03744v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic depression detection from clinical interviews typically models the semantic content and acoustic characteristics of participant speech.
By Hanie Kang, Huang-Cheng Chou, Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri, Shrikanth Narayanan
arXiv:2605. 18937v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Patient-managed Personal Health Records (PHRs) promises to empower patients to better understand their health; but information in the record is complex, potentially hindering insights.
By Rory Sayres, Kejia Chen, Ayush Jain, Matthew Thompson, Jonathan Richina, Xiang Yin, Jimmy Hu, Fan Zhang, Bob Lou, Mike Sanchez, Ines Mezerreg, Meredith Schreier, Hamsa Subramaniam, I-Ching Lee, Yugang Jia, Daniel Mcduff, Yossi Matias, Avinatan Hassidim, Dale Webster, Yun Liu, Jackie Barr, Quang Duong
arXiv:2606. 18596v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sleep diaries are central to behavioral sleep medicine and cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia, yet daily completion is difficult to sustain, and static forms often provide limited context for interpreting night-to-night sleep variation.
By Amama Mahmood, Bokyung Kim, Honghao Zhao, Molly E. Atwood, Luis F. Buenaver, Michael T. Smith, Chien-Ming Huang
arXiv:2512. 04124v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Frontier language models increasingly participate in conversations about distress and mental health, yet the mechanisms that generate anthropomorphic self narratives remain unclear.
By Afshin Khadangi, Hanna Marxen, Amir Sartipi, Igor Tchappi, Gilbert Fridgen
arXiv:2608. 08746v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prospective daily symptom tracking is central to premenstrual health assessment, but repeated ordinal forms impose substantial response burden.
By Yifan Wang