Changing our Approach to Mental Health in Aotearoa w/ Mike King: May 31, 2021.

Warning: this piece mentions youth suicide.

New Zealand has one of the highest youth suicide rates in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Last year in New Zealand 175 young people died by suicide and an estimated 3500 attempted to take their own lives. 

Mental health activist, Mike King says the biggest problem with our mental health system is that young people don’t realise how normal their problems are.

I started off our interview by asking King how he thinks we got to the current state we are in.