When I was unemployed I was lucky to have a few friends who were also suffering a similar fate and we took to taking ‘mental elf’ days – being unemployed is stressful and sometimes you need a day when you don’t feel guilty NOT looking for work. So when my American friend Jill got stressed while actually working within mental health there was only thing for it – to create a mental health survival kit a.k.a. a Mental Elf Kit.