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From Pattern Recognizers to Personalized Companions: A Survey of Large Language Models in Mental Health

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 21, 2026 · UTC

The rising global prevalence of mental health conditions, together with longstanding barriers in traditional healthcare, such as limited resources, high cost, stigma, and privacy concerns, has created an urgent need for accessible and scalable support. Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a transformative technology with strong potential to democratize mental health support through advanced natural language understanding and generation. However, the rapidly expanding, fragmented body of work in this area lacks a coherent evolutionary narrative, making it difficult to contextualize curr

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