For World Mental Health Day, we've rounded up eight designs that address the increasingly prevalent topic of mental wellbeing, including a hand-held anxiety reducer and a metaphorical gun that fires tears.

Mindnosis by Sara Lopez Ibanez
Having had her own negative experiences with mental health services, design graduate Sara Lopez Ibanez created a self-assessment kit to support those with similar issues.
After researching the UK's approach to mental health services and the various types of therapy on offer, Ibanez concluded that what patient's struggled with the most was the initial communication with their doctors.
Her Mindnosis kit, therefore, allows users to discover the type of help they need, and where they can get it from. It includes a set of eight activity cards that combine mindfulness, cognitive behaviour therapy techniques (CBT) and tips from peers to help users when they feel unwell. Find out more about Mindnosis ?

Tools for Therapy by Nicolette Bodewes
Nicolette Bodewes also designed a mental health toolkit, intended to help users express their thoughts during psychotherapy sessions.
The idea similarly stemmed from Bodewes' own experiences with therapy, where she the found creative sessions more beneficial than standard, talk-based therapy.
Tools for Therapy features a basic set of building blocks as well as a set of 12 more complex objects, based on the Jungian Archetypes defined by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung. Other elements include round sheet...