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Jemima Kang @jemimakang.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Nick Haslam's "Concept Creep and the Mental Health Crisis" makes a compelling case for how expanding mental health concepts may actually be making our mental health worse. He reviews the empirical evidence on semantic inflation, the potential adverse effects of it, and what we can do about it.

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Jemima Kang @jemimakang.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I'm also presenting this work today at #ICWSM (Session 5, 10:30–11:00 AM) - come say hi!

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Jemima Kang @jemimakang.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Read more about this in a piece we published in The Conversation Australia + NZ yesterday on our new study, "Reshaping of Mental Health Discourse on Reddit: The Rise of Neurodivergence" theconversation.com/we-analysed-...

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We analysed 14 million Reddit posts to reveal a striking shift in how we talk about mental health

Social media platforms are shaping how we collectively think about mental health, a new study shows.

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Jemima Kang @jemimakang.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

We analysed 14 million Reddit posts to reveal a striking shift in how we talk about mental health. We show a shift in conversations toward ADHD and autism, and away from anxiety and depression. These changes will likely influence how people make sense of, and seek help for, mental health problems.

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Jemima Kang @jemimakang.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Come talk to me at the poster session today at 1:30! #ic2s2

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Jemima Kang @jemimakang.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Come check out my poster at #ic2s2 tomorrow!

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Naomi Baes @naomibaes.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I am deeply grateful to my PhD supervisors, Nick Haslam and Kat Vylomova, and to my collaborators, Haim Dubossarsky and Raphaël Merx, for their valuable contributions to these frameworks. Links to papers: 1) SIBling: aclanthology.org/2024.acl-lon... 2) LSC-Eval: arxiv.org/abs/2503.08042

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A Multidimensional Framework for Evaluating Lexical Semantic Change with Social Science Applications

Naomi Baes, Nick Haslam, Ekaterina Vylomova. Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2024.

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Jemima Kang @jemimakang.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Thank you so much! That’s also great to hear you’re finding similar trends in your work.

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Jemima Kang @jemimakang.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

(5/5) To do so examined over 478,000 Reddit posts over a ten-year period and found that conversations in online communities on ADHD and autism are becoming increasingly alike – in language, membership and topics of conversation.

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Jemima Kang @jemimakang.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

(4/5) In our new study we explored whether ADHD and autism have become more closely connected in our culture, and why this convergence may be occurring.

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Jemima Kang @jemimakang.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

(3/5) In parallel with these changes, there has been a shift in how the two conditions are understood by many people, inspired in part by the neurodiversity movement.

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Jemima Kang @jemimakang.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

(2/5) Genuine rising rates and greater awareness are two possibilities. Another major factor is changes introduced in the DSM-5 which permitted dual diagnosis for the first time.

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Jemima Kang @jemimakang.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

(1/5) ADHD and autism are in the news as never before. Media attention is at an all-time high, demand for diagnostic assessments has risen substantially, and clinical services are experiencing unprecedented pressure. What’s behind the rise in these two conditions?

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