What can we learn about the psychiatric diagnostic categories by analysing patients' lived experiences with Machine-Learning?

Table 1 The distribution of symptoms and syndromes within the four clusters (potential constructs for mental disorders)

Cluster 0:	Cluster 1:	Cluster 2:	Cluster 3:
feeling sick	feeling sick	feeling sick	feeling sick
fear	fear	fear	fear
depressed mood and loss of interest	depressed mood and loss of interest	depressed mood and loss of interest	depressed mood and loss of interest
auditory hallucination	auditory hallucination	auditory hallucination	auditory hallucination
mania and depression
pain		pain
experience of loss
sadness	sadness	sadness	sadness
sleep			sleep
eating
	repetitive thoughts and actions
	anxiety	anxiety	anxiety
	compulsion
	attention deficit		attention deficit
	rituals
		isolation
		loneliness
		cry
			panic attack
			stress

Note. The order or sequence of the symptoms does not matter here. However, the symptoms were arranged in this order to visualise the common and uncommon factors across the clusters

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