What Do Your Social Media Posts Say About Your Mental Health?

Psychologists and therapists may one day use activity on social media sites like Facebook to gauge a patients’ mental health, according to a recent study.

Elizabeth Martin, a doctoral student at the University of Missouri, says that “Therapists could possibly use social media activity to create a more complete clinical picture of a patient. The beauty of social media activity as a tool in psychological diagnosis is that it removes some of the problems associated with patients’ self-reporting.