MATCHA: A Chinese Multi-Disorder Mental Health Dataset with Cross-Lingual Analyses on Social Media

Mental health research on social media has been dominated by English-language datasets and DSM-5-centered resources, limiting cross-lingual and cross-cultural understanding of online mental health expression. We introduce MATCHA, the first Chinese multi-disorder mental health dataset that links disorder-specific Weibo Super-Topic communities with users' broader public timelines. MATCHA covers seven DSM-5 disorders and a control group, comprising 46,025 cohort-level users and 1.8 million posts. The dataset distinguishes users with explicit self-disclosure evidence from broader disorder-related participants through an LLM-assisted annotation pipeline, and is released in a rigorously de-identified, controlled-access format. Using MATCHA, we analyze behavioral, linguistic, symptom-related, and life-event-related patterns across disorders, and conduct cross-lingual comparisons with Twitter-STMHD. Our analyses show that Weibo Super-Topics function as concentrated spaces for affective and health-related expression, while cross-platform differences between Weibo and Twitter often exceed cross-disorder variation. MATCHA provides a new resource for community-aware and cross-lingual mental health NLP research.

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arXiv (Cornell University)
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2026-10-26
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https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2610.35512
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Mental Health via Writing
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MATCHA: A Chinese Multi-Disorder Mental Health Dataset with Cross-Lingual Analyses on Social Media

Kenny Qili Zhu, Zitong Li, Bingrui Jin, Baihan LI et al.
arXiv (Cornell University)
Mental Health via Writing
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MATCHA: A Chinese Multi-Disorder Mental Health Dataset with Cross-Lingual Analyses on Social Media

Kenny Qili Zhu, Zitong Li, Bingrui Jin, Baihan LI, Kunyao Lan, Shimeng Li, Mengyue Wu
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Abstract

Mental health research on social media has been dominated by English-language datasets and DSM-5-centered resources, limiting cross-lingual and cross-cultural understanding of online mental health expression. We introduce MATCHA, the first Chinese multi-disorder mental health dataset that links disorder-specific Weibo Super-Topic communities with users' broader public timelines. MATCHA covers seven DSM-5 disorders and a control group, comprising 46,025 cohort-level users and 1.8 million posts. The dataset distinguishes users with explicit self-disclosure evidence from broader disorder-related participants through an LLM-assisted annotation pipeline, and is released in a rigorously de-identified, controlled-access format. Using MATCHA, we analyze behavioral, linguistic, symptom-related, and life-event-related patterns across disorders, and conduct cross-lingual comparisons with Twitter-STMHD. Our analyses show that Weibo Super-Topics function as concentrated spaces for affective and health-related expression, while cross-platform differences between Weibo and Twitter often exceed cross-disorder variation. MATCHA provides a new resource for community-aware and cross-lingual mental health NLP research.

arXiv (Cornell University)
Mental Health via Writing
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MATCHA: A Chinese Multi-Disorder Mental Health Dataset with Cross-Lingual Analyses on Social Media — Kenny Qili Zhu, Zitong Li, et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) (2026) | TGRS Research Map | TGRS