J Santhosh Kumar, Sunitha, Divyanjali, Gubba.Vaishnavi, Sreevani, Keerthi 02 08 Depression is a leading mental health issue affecting millions worldwide yet it often goes undiagnosed due to stigma lack of awareness or limited access to professional help This project presents a novel AIpowered system that combines conversational AI chatbot with live facial expression analysis to detect early signs of depression The chatbot engages users in casual and mental healthrelated conversations while facial emotion recognition from live video feeds continuously monitors user expressions By integrating Natural Language Processing NLP and Computer Vision with Machine Learning models the system can flag potential symptoms of depression in realtime offering a noninvasive and scalable screening solution Copyright (c) Journal of Science Engineering Technology and Management Science. All rights reserved 2026