MindWell Solace: Your Mental Health Companion

This paper introduces "MindWell Solace: Your Mental Health Companion," a Flask-based chatbot application designed to address the critical need for mental health support among college students. The chatbot acts as an intermediary between students and college counselors, engaging in conversations based on symptoms of mental disorders to detect potential issues. Using Firebase for efficient data storage, the chatbot notifies counselors via email when a disorder is detected, facilitating timely intervention. The methodology involved extensive research on prevalent student mental health disorders, ontology creation, questionnaire development, and dataset training using the Random Forest Classifier. Key features include disorder detection, counselor notifications, user privacy prioritization, and effective support delivery. This research underscores the importance of integrating technology to address mental health challenges in educational settings, with potential for broader community impact and continuous improvement through future enhancements.