Health workers in Southland have been given access to counselling sessions to deal with the stress of a hiring freeze.
Professor Marie Bismark said she was caring for more than 300 patients at the Kāpiti Mental Health Clinic, some of whom were "seriously unwell".
It comes as its $10 million Mental Health and Addiction Community Sector Innovation Fund is set to open.
"There's still quite a way to go."
"Women have been conditioned to believe that getting older is a bad thing. And that looking older, in particular, is terrible."
"Depression is a lot of different things with a lot of different causes, biological changes and treatments."
"The mental health crisis among young people is an emergency."
"It's really, really mentally challenging."
"We've never even been to NZ. We don't know anyone out there."
One in five Kiwis with ADHD give up trying to get a referral because of wait times.
"I have gone 40 years without this diagnosis, and I now understand that my brain works a little bit differently."
More than 40 percent of mental health nurses surveyed were assaulted in the same period.
More than 40 percent of nurses say they've been assaulted within a single year.
"This interesting finding demonstrates a need to give a greater emphasis to diet in healthcare."
The National Party committed to funding 13 additional psychiatry registrar places.
"I was never suicidal, but I got close to knowing what that might feel like."
"We go faster and faster, we go shallower and shallower and very little of value actually gets done."
Naomi Ballanytne became the chair of I Am Hope earlier this year.
"This funding will help many young people get support when they need it."
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