McBride says anxiety and depression can be insidious, because the sufferer begins to feel like the illness is who they are, rather than a problem that needs to be dealt with. Listening to (the album) now, it seems so obvious it s about a person with depression, but at the time I didn t realise. I was writing what I felt. You start to feel like this is just who you are, like you don t have any emotions, you don t want to do anything and you don t want to see people.
Auckland musician Daniel McBride hopes his new album, Two Minds, might be a record of dark times that helps others get through.
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Yesterday, April 5th, marked the 27th anniversary of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain s death - an especially eerie time as it now is we ve lost him for as long as he was here.
Cobain is famously part of the 27 Club - a niche group of talented artists who all died at the young age of 27, most commonly from battling addiction or where mental health issues had an impact on their death (Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Amy Winehouse for example).
Cobain s struggles with mental health which led to his death have long been documented, and thanks to the Lost Tapes of the 27 Club, a project founded by Over the Bridge that assists artists struggling with mental illness, there s a Nirvana-esque track titled Drowned in the Sun that s been released created by artificial intelligence.
Nathan Smith was inside Masjid An-Nur when the shooting started on 15 March 2019.
Fifty-one lives were lost in the terrorist attack - the country s worst mass shooting - committed by an Australian white supremacist.
Smith says he has, as a first-hand witness, struggled with the trauma since the attack and mental health support has been nearly non-existent.
His first counselling session was with a temporary counsellor who returned home to Australia, and he had to seek out his own counselling when the following appointments were cancelled.
ACC s mental health support policy is that help is only given if a mental injury is caused by a physical injury.
A Waikato mental health campaigner wants to know why the Minister of Health will not meet with suicide-bereaved families in Waikato.
Jane Stevens giving evidence on the opening day of an inquest into her son s death in March 2015.
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Jane Stevens has been waiting over a year to get a meeting with the minister to discuss mental health services.
Her son Nicky took his own life while in the care of the Waikato DHB in 2015.
Stevens first wrote on behalf of a group of bereaved families to the then minister David Clark in February last year.
He agreed to meet, but lost his job soon after.