Depression is a psychological disorder that affects millions of peoplein theworld, regardless of their age, social class or nationality. In theliterature, different techniques have been studying to analyze andrecognize this disease such as Natural Language Processing, SentimentAnalysis, and Machine Learning. In this paper, we describe asystematic mapping to identify evidence regarding techniques thatare often used to identify depressive profiles.We analyzed 472 studiesand we selected 25 primary studies. These studies indicate thatthe SVM and NB techniques have been most used to detect possibledepressive profiles in social networks. Furthermore, Twitter andFacebook with 35,5% and 22,6%, respectively were the social mediamost have been used by users’ express their feelings regarding themost varied subjects.