Mental and Emotional Health

Nature and Mental Health – Soak it in – 12th May 2021
(Mental Health Awareness Week, mental health, nature)

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My Journey through Different Channels of Counselling – 20th January 2021
(counselling, personal journey, finding help, mental health)

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Spent – When You Have Nothing Left To Give – World Mental Health Day 2020
10th October 2020
(World Mental Health Day, mental exhaustion, lockdown, anxiety, shutdown)

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When You Feel Too Much - The Last Krystallos

When You Feel Too Much… – 17th June 2020
(SPD, Sensory Processing Disorder, emotions, empath, light worker, feelings, intensity)

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In a world where you can be anything, be kind - the last krystallos

In a world where you can be anything, be kind – 19th February 2020
(Be Kind, kindness, positivity, friends)

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How to live with Panic Attacks - The Last Krystallos

How to Live with Panic Attacks (Beneath the Old Oak) – 7th November 2018
(Panic Attacks, anxiety, symptoms, what works for you, Beneath the Old Oak)

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Your Ideal Heaven - Your Choice - The Last Krystallos

Your Ideal Heaven – Your Choice (Beneath the Rainbow) – 3rd October 2018
(Heaven, after-life, designing your after-life, belief, life after death, death, Beneath the Rainbow)

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The Inevitability of Death – How Do You Cope

The Inevitability of Death – How Do You Cope – 29th August 2018
(Grief, death, coping with death, Beneath the Rainbow, Grayson Perry, Rites of Passage)

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Self-Harm Uncovered and Sharp Objects - The Last Krystallos

Self-Harm Uncovered and Sharp Objects – 1st August 2018
(Sharp Objects, HBO, Sky Atlantic, Self-harm, Mental Health, coping with self-harm)

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Mental Health Awareness Week 2018 – Stressed Out - The Last Krystallos

Mental Health Awareness Week 2018 – Stressed Out – 16th May 2018
(Stress, anxiety, panic, dealing with stress)

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How to Conquer Overwhelming Control Issues in Your Life – 21st February 2018
(Control Issues, OCD, anorexia, control, taking control, letting go)

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When We Judge Others Unlikable... Starring Strictly and X-Factor on Social Media - The Last Krystallos

When We Judge Others Unlikable – Starring Strictly and X-Factor on Social Media – 6th December 2017
(Social Media, bullying, judgement, hurt)

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Surviving Suicide - International Survival of Suicide Day 18th Nov - The Last Krystallos

Surviving Suicide – International Survival of Suicide Day 18th Nov – 15th November 2017
(Suicide, surviving suicide, survivor, suicidal tendencies, support)

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Visual Sensory Aid - The Last Krystallos

Visual Sensory Aid – 25th October 2017
(Visual, sensory, autism, auditory, kinaesthetic, NLP)

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Understanding Depression - The Truths and Myths - The Last Krystallos

Understanding Depression – The Truths and Myths – 4th October 2017
(Depression, antidepressants, types of depression, treatment)

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Coping with Alzheimer_s amid Tears of Sadness, Love, and Humour The Last Krystallos

Coping with Alzheimer’s: Sadness, Love, and Humour – 16th August 2017
(Alzheimer’s, Dementia, S. R. Karfelt, Nobody Told Me: Love in the Time of Dementia)

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Coping with the Stigma of Antidepressants - The Last Krystallos


Coping with the Stigma of Antidepressants
– 5th July 2017
(Coping, antidepressants, stigma, pills)

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Mental Health Awareness Week 2017 - Surviving or Thriving - The Last Krystallos

Mental Health Awareness Week 2017 – Surviving or Thriving? – 10th May 2017
(Anxiety, depresssion, mental health, awareness, survey, country’s mental health)

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This is What Anxiety Feels Like – 22nd February 2017
(#ThisIsWhatAnxietyFeelsLike, anxiety, depression, stress)

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The Practicalities and Fragilities of Death… – 11th January 2017
(Grief, death, funerals, plans, what happens when you die…)

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Honour those who’ve Gone Before – Send 2016 to its Grave – and Fight! – 28th December 2016
(Grief, death, depression, overcoming, suicide, pain, fight back)

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Pottery – Falling in Love with Clay and Time Out for Carers – 14th December 2016
(pottery, time out, mental health, therapy, art, clay)

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How to Keep Calm and Carry On (During Times of Stress and Anxiety) – 2nd November 2016
(Stress, anxiety, stay calm)

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We Need to Talk about Depression and Antidepressants – 28th September 2016
(Depression, antidepressants, stigma, getting better, serotonin, healing)

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Being Broken and the Kintsukuroi Art of Healing - The Last Krystallos


Being Broken and the Kintsukuroi Art of Healing – 7th September 2016
(Broken, depression, sad, pain, scars, healing, Kintsukuroi, Kintsugi, gold)

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Anxiety Disorder - the Illness that Inhibits You and How to Beat It - The Last Krystallos


Anxiety Disorder – the Illness that Inhibits You and How to Beat It – 25th May 2016
(Anxiety, Panic, Anxiety Disorders, Panic Attacks, symptoms)

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Alzheimer's Awareness - Forget-me-not - The Last Krystallos

Alzheimer’s Awareness Week – Forget-me-not – 18th May 2016
(Alzheimer’s, Dementia, help, Sponsored Sky Dive)

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Coping with self harm, how to fight the self-harm urges and win, the last krystallos,

Coping with Self-harm – How to Fight the Urges and Win – 30th March 2016
(Self-harm, totems, talismans, stims, ways to cope)

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The most valuable way to a happy and successful relationship, the last krystallos, relationships, love and marriage, better relationships,

The Most Valuable Way to a Happy and Successful Relationship – 9th March 2016
(Relationships, marriage, breakdown, success, divorce, happiness)

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Misophonia – the Torment of Sound – 13th January 2016
(Misophonia, sound, sensitivity, SSSS, 4S, Selective Sound Sensitivity Syndrome)

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When You Stop Running – 28th October 2015
(Running away, missing persons, coming home)

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Stigma Fighters – Lisa Shambrook – 15th October 2015
(Stigma Fighters, fighting stigma, depression, anxiety, panic, my story of living with mental illness)

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The Highly Sensitive Person and a Rewarding Life – 14th October 2015
(Highly Sensitive Person, HSP, sensitivity, Misophonia, Hypersensitivity)

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Nature’s Antidepressants – 16th September 2015
(Nature, antidepressants, health, depression)

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#InShadowSelfie – Mental Health Awareness – 2nd September 2015
(Depression, Invisible illness, Mental health awareness, Government (DWP) Policies)

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Edited in Lumia Selfie

Understanding Self-Harm: the Truths and Myths – 12th August 2015
(Self-Harm)

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Running Away and Coming Back Again… 17th June 2015
(Running Away)

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The Tragedy of Demonising Depression – 28th March 2015
(Depression)

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The Battle to Beat Depression – 18th March 2015
(Depresssion)

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Sometimes Stars fall from the Sky – 13th August 2014
(Depression)

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Summer SAD – 6th June 2013
(Seasonal Affective Disorder – Summer) (Depression)

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Sink or Swim… – 22nd June 2012
(Depression)

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Sinking… – 11th March 2010
(Depression)

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