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Abstract : One in every four individuals has a diagnosable mental disease in a year. Around 20% of children and adolescents have a mental health condition and often ignore it. It is found that 93% of youth use social media to communicate and engage, as it reflects their emotions, moods, and thoughts. As a result, machine learning algorithms may anticipate people's moods and emotions based on their postings and comments. On the other hand, psychometric tests use questions to determine how individuals think, feel, behave, and react. It is necessary to investigate a hybrid approach for identifying people's mental illness by combining social media inputs and psychometric tests, especially during a pandemic. The hybrid approach can combine the results from both the models to reflect on the user's digital & non-digital reactions to certain sensitive situations to determine their mental state. Hence, the present paper aims to develop a web framework that can forecast the emergence of mental illness in the future based on data from social media comments and real-time data from psychometric tests using machine learning algorithms. The proposed work includes the cluster ensemble method for social media posts and a convolution neural network model for psychometric tests. This model predicts mental illness with an accuracy of 87.05 percent. The individual can use this result to take the required precautions by visiting a psychologist.