Mental Health Awareness Week

A multi-billion dollar industry has sprung up around mental health and wellness. Have the efforts to raise awareness been too successful?  Audio

Sir John Kirwan is one of the faces of mental health awareness in this country, so it's fitting that we catch up with him on the eve of Mental Health Awareness Week. JK joins the show to share some of… Audio

Too often, we divorce mental health from other aspects of wellbeing and leave the importance of whānau out of the picture, says academic and Māori health leader Sir Mason Durie. The Te Whare Tapa Whā… Video, Audio

Johann Hari has had his share of criticism - those who say he's basically told people with depression to throw away their medication. But is that really what he's done? Local psychotherapist Kyle… Audio

Journalist and author Johann Hari says there's no silver bullet for rehabilitating an addict, but there's a wealth of evidence to suggest good old-fashioned human connection and a reason to get out of… Audio

A year after Darcy Clay released his 1997 hit ‘Jesus I Was Evil’, the Auckland musician took his own life. For the first time, his father Bob Bolton talks about his son's life and work in an interview… Video, Audio

It's Mental Health Awareness week, an annual week dedicated to highlighting a problem that effects nearly 50 per cent of kiwis at least once in their lifetime. Our next guest spends her days caring… Audio