Table 3.

Characteristics of the r/Depression clusters and sample terms

Size (%)	Cluster label	Sample terms
354 (18.30%)	needs of depressed individuals	need, depressed, talk, doctor, mental, understand, family, medication, anxiety, therapy
285 (14.74%)	depressed times	feeling, years, depressed, bad, hard, long, suicide, talk, days, end
163 (8.43%)	feelings of depression	feeling, bad, depressed, end, hard, sorry, worse, feels, tried, months
163 (8.43%)	negative emotion	bad, shit, trying, hard, fucking, fuck, depressed, sad
147 (7.60%)	work	work, job, hard, right, working, lot, trying, hate, money, days
132 (6.83%)	gratitude	thank, great, awesome, nice, job, proud, glad, amazing, beautiful, wow
126 (6.51%)	talking to friends	talk, friends, say, friend, person, care, tell, said, told, talking
123 (6.36%)	friends and family	friends, friend, family, best, away, love, college, great
122 (6.31%)	understanding depressed individuals	depressed, understand, feeling, bad, worse, need, hard, mental, illness, problems
101 (5.22%)	school	school, college, year, high, class, semester, grades, work, friends, parents
95 (4.91%)	love and depression	love, happy, hate, depressed, days, feeling, great, bad, guy, relationship
55 (2.84%)	positive emotion	happy, hope, luck, best, glad, great, thank, wish, awesome, love
38 (1.96%)	sleep	sleep, bed, night, wake, sleeping, dreams, asleep, morning, awake, waking
18 (0.93%)	birthday	birthday, happy, hope, friends, love, wish, great, celebrate, enjoy, facebook
12 (0.62%)	social related	living, friends, eat, social, joke, conversation, games, media, enjoy, topic