[HN Gopher] New research indicates signs of depression can be de...
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       New research indicates signs of depression can be detected in
       speech patterns
        
       Author : amichail
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2023-01-27 20:24 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | Melting_Harps wrote:
       | As much hype is being made about about AI/ML being able to solve
       | for X, and as interesting as NLP is and how much progress has
       | been made, you have to be a complete fool to lend this sufficient
       | credibility to let it determine something as important as this
       | and at best is giving false positives with a heavy bias since so
       | many can likely be identified to have some inclination to be
       | depressed about something; be it monetary, environmental,
       | political (just to name a few) reasons.
       | 
       | I would hate to be tired or exhausted after a gym work out
       | (thought to be more effective than taking SSRIs) or right before
       | going to sleep or after I wake and be groggy when my
       | tone/pitch/cadence are not in line with what a non-depressed
       | person is and have this thing label me as depressed and have the
       | ramifications to deal with.
       | 
       | I think depression, while very real, has been to loosely used in
       | order to identify anything that seems to not align with a
       | perpetual state of being content, or as is most often the case,
       | one of compromised satisfaction. Anything that deviates from this
       | is often seen as being in depressed state, when in actuality the
       | most creative people I know have to go through these emotional
       | and psychological cycles and processes in order to tap into what
       | they need to find the motivation to create something meaningful.
        
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