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This paper discloses a virtual conversational method and system to relieve the psychological stress of adolescents. It also aims at providing some positive information through continuous dialogue answers in order to guide adolescents to think and face difficulties with a positive and optimistic attitude and the agenda of reliving the psychological pressure of the adolescents can be achieved. Conventional face-to-face stress detection and relief methods do not work when confronted with those adolescents who are reluctant to express their negative emotions to the people in real life. In this paper, we would like to present an adolescent- oriented intelligent conversational chatting system called "HappySoul", which acts as a virtual friend who can assist to encourage, understand, comfort, and guide stressful adolescents to pour out their bad and negative feelings, thereby releasing the stress. Chatbots, or conversational interfaces, present a new way for adolescents to interact with computer systems. This chatbot will allow a user to simply ask questions in the same way that they would address a human. The technology at the core of the proposed chatbot is natural language processing ("NLP"), RNN and client server architecture with the help of Android GUI