mental health Archive

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  Mental Health Awareness Week - by Kevin Hague

  
  
  
  This week is Mental Health Awareness week. The culture around mental health in New Zealand has come leaps and bounds from where it was even five years ago. I congratulate everyone who has helped bring about this culture change and raise awareness about mental health issues, and I thank them for doing so. However, this [...] read more
  October 12, 2011 1:44 pm - 6 Comments
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  Movember Challenge to other MPs: Bring it! - by Kevin Hague

  
  
  
  Movember 1st dawns. Well, actually approaching the crack of noon as I write, but it’s more or less my day off. I’ve had my last thoughtless shave of the month. From now on it’s a question of carefully trimming around the luxuriant moustaches I will be cultivating. Actually, having done this a couple of times [...] read more
  November 1, 2010 2:20 pm - 3 Comments
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  Employment inspiration in Mental Health Awareness Week - by Catherine Delahunty

  
  
  
  This morning I attended a very positive event in Thames hosted by the Like Minds Like Mine team from Te Korowai Hauora O Hauraki. It was a breakfast for employers to network with agencies like Workwise and Workbridge on the theme of the benefits of employing people with impairments. One of the town’s largest employers, [...] read more
  October 6, 2010 12:27 pm - 2 Comments
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  Domestic violence and the Canterbury earthquake - by Catherine Delahunty

  
  
  
  I was dismayed but not altogether surprised to read yesterday that police have reported a marked increase in domestic violence in Canterbury since Saturday’s earthquake. The trauma of the earthquake itself, followed by days of stress from damaged homes and businesses, fear from aftershocks, lack of sleep, and worry as the extent of the challenge [...] read more
  September 9, 2010 10:33 am - 17 Comments
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  Key should challenge mental health stereotypes, not perpetuate them - by Kevin Hague

  
  
  
  When I was a schoolboy, one of the common schoolyard taunts was to refer to someone as “mental” or “loony”.  Through most of last century, mental illness was a highly stigmatised issue, and people with mental health problems were hidden away from the rest of society, often untreated and/or mistreated, in what were once known [...] read more
  August 4, 2010 11:45 am - 44 Comments
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  ACC changes hurt sexual violence victims - by Catherine Delahunty

  
  
  
  The biker lobby has managed to get considerable public attention and support for motorcyclists’ grievances over ACC levies, but there is a group of more vulnerable people who cannot march in their thousands on Parliament grounds to defend their ACC access. Many of them cannot email Members of Parliament because it exposes them as possibly [...] read more
  December 16, 2009 11:01 am - 4 Comments
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  Gutting ACC – Sewer-side Smith - by frog

  
  
  
  It won’t matter if a suicide victim was incapable of forming a rational intent. It won’t matter if the suicide was caused by an abject failure of mental health services to provide appropriate treatment. The victim’s family will get no help from ACC. It’s just not fair. read more
  October 20, 2009 9:04 am - 1 Comment
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  Oakley Waterfall – Oasis of Calm under threat - by frog

  
  
  
  Tucked away in a valley that seems a world away from the concrete and asphalt of Waterview Straight is a spectacular local attraction. Oakley Creek Waterfall cascades into Oakley Creek, its distinctive roar creating a dramatic ambience. Green Party Co-Leader Russel Norman’s guided tour along the Creek opened his eyes to its fragile ecosystem. Wendy John of [...] read more
  May 26, 2009 11:12 am - 4 Comments
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  Challenge on Auckland mental health services - by Sue Bradford

  
  
  
  On Tuesday this week I  used Question Time in the House to ask Health Minister David Cunliffe about Auckland Hospital’s psychiatric acute unit Te Whetu Tawera, as I had just heard that Selwyn Wallace, the man whose body was found floating under Wynyard Wharf in mid-August, had  been released from the unit just prior to his death.  [...] read more
  September 4, 2008 9:17 am - 9 Comments