The invention discloses a mental health monitoring system and a control method thereof. The mental health monitoring system comprises a sign detection module, an answer detection module and a pathology analysis module and a database system. The invention also relates to the control method of the mental health monitoring system, wherein the control method comprises the following steps: arranging a heart rate monitoring device, a pulse detection device, a blood pressure detection device, a respiration detection device and a pupillary reflex detection device in corresponding positions of a human body, and saving detected heart rate, pulse and blood pressure, respiration frequency and pupillary reflex data in a database; saving answer data of a patient in the database system by virtue of a test system; and analyzing sign data, answer data and behavior data extracted from the patient by virtue of the pathology analysis module and matching the data with pathological characteristic data of mental diseases, so as to determine the mental disease status of the patient. With the application of the mental health monitoring system provided by the invention, patient's family members can timely discover abnormity of the patient and determine illness conditions, so as to implement corresponding treatment timely.