👀 I’ll be presenting this work this week at @ic2s2.bsky.social (Thu, 11:00 AM · Social Media & Networks). If you’re there & interested, let’s connect! #IC2S2 N/N

Finally, my thanks go to my supervisors, Petra Kralj Novak and Srebrenka Letina, whose trust and support enable me to research a topic I deeply care about. 8/N

📖 Full study 👉 osf.io/7dfcw_v1

💡 The perception of mental health disorders is continually shaped by digital spaces. They should not be taken as mere anecdotes but an essential part of the larger picture into understanding psychopathology. 7/N

🚨 Neither diagnostic criteria nor online health communities give a holistic view of psychopathology. But together they offer complementary perspectives:

• one shaped by clinical expertise & tradition

• the other by lived experience & modern challenges 6/N

📊 Reddit vs Diagnostic Criteria
Only 6% of links are present in both networks, yet broader clusters partly align. Some results echo dimensional frameworks like HiTOP:

🌀 Internalizing cluster: depression, anxiety & OCD

🌀 Thought disorders cluster: psychosis, trauma & personality disorders 5/N

We also observe (with some caveats) that addiction recovery communities (alcohol, opioids, impulse-control) show negative ties 🚫 to much of the network, which may reflect symptom-focused isolation & (self‑)stigmatization despite known comorbidities.

🟥 See here: tinyurl.com/reddit-psych... 4/N

🧠 Trauma, dissociation & avoidance emerge as central transdiagnostic hubs.

🛡️ Entire ICD‑10 categories: psychotic (F2), mood (F3) and personality disorders (F60) have fuzzy boundaries, linking more across than within categories.

🌐 Network of positive associations: tinyurl.com/reddit-psych... 3/N

📕 We built a network of psychopathology from co-posting across 114 mental health subreddits & 49 disorders, then compared it with the diagnostic criteria of ICD‑10.

In summary: Mental health disorders on Reddit are far more interconnected than diagnostic manuals suggest. 🕸️

What did we find? 2/N