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