Mad in Aotearoa

Wellbeing Wellington supports the blog site Mad in Aotearoa.

Mad in Aotearoa provides blog space for expressing the creation of wisdom from living inside the experience of extreme states of being. Writers speak in their words, from their cultures and communities, and from their lives in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The writers are showing how they are using this wisdom in their worlds.

List of posts:

Affirmations – Jonathon Hagger

A New Mental Health Commission: Some thoughts from our community

Integrative, Holistic and Ancestral Health – Sarah O’Connor

Depression and Anxiety is Balls – Jonathon Hagger and Fleur Pepperell-Roberts

Election 2017 – NZ First’s Reply

Me & Psych Drugs – Andrea Bates

My Happy Kitchen – Sarah O’Connor

Imagination, my asylum – Gary Platz

Starting a Peer Support Group – Dennis Duerr

Election 2017 – The Māori Party’s Reply

Poems – Cushla Louis-Carroll

Office of the Auditor-General’s Report – Taimi Allan and Andrea Bates

Election 2017 – The Green Party’s Reply

The Mental Health Impact of Hate Crime – LaQuisha St Redfern

There’s An Election Coming – Mad in Aotearoa

Why Worry? – Anna Jane Jackman

#reviewthesystem – Andrea Bates

The Stories We Tell – Stella Carruthers

Mental Distress – Sarah O’Connor

Hard Won Wisdom – Richard Anderson

Talking Together: beyond mental health – Anna Jane Jackman

Just Get On With It – Karen Breckon

Advertising Psychiatric Drugs on TV – Taimi Allan

Come on! Let’s do something about this! – Sarah O’Connor

A Five Mile Meander – Andrea Bates

In, Through, Beyond; Madness – Gary Platz

Our Coming to Mad In Aotearoa

Dear Readers – Anna Jane Jackman

Tahi – Egan Bidois

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