The Coroner's Office of New Zealand has just released the suicide statistics for the year 2015-16. The news is not good; the suicide rate - particularly for young men - remains high. In Canterbury, the number of men who commited suicide (78) in the past year was the highest in the country and the highest the region has ever seen. In his report...

Amy Morgan and Anthony Jorm's research at Melbourne University is focused on developing the community's capacity to use self-help stategies to address mental health concerns. They have reviewed all the self-help strategies related to the early signs of depressions and have found...

We all desire and need connection to others. However, that desire brings risk in the form of judgement and rejection. Take a look here at the positive side of technology and how it serves to overcome this...

A big thank-you to MHERC (Mental Health Education Resource Centre) for supporting the recent workshop Managing Compassion Fatigue: A Health Professionals Guide. A good turn-out and a great response to this first time on offer workshop...

Some would say we are living in the age of anxiousness...for those of you who are looking for some resources about how to respond to it, here are a few favorites books of mine. Bev Aisbett's "Living with IT' and Matthew Johnstone's 'Quiet the Mind'... 

For those of you who are local to Christchurch you will particularly aware of the columnist Beck Eleven. She is one of the courageous ones who is willing to put herself and her mental wellbeing challenges into the public arena...Read more here.

Recently, GP Denis Dumaine, Optometrist Leesa Stuart, and myself contributed our time to a worthy event; the Men's Health Forum at the Lincoln Events Centre...

It is men's health week this week (June 13-17). To make a conribution to the event, I am - in partnership with MHERC - going to present a workshop called 'Relating Well to Men Who Attend Health Services'. If you want to learn more click here. I hope to see ya!

Have you recently experienced the loss of a spouse (partner), parent, child, sibling, grandparent, grandchild, or spouse's (partner's) parent? In New Zealand, you have certain entitlements. If you want to know what they are then click on Employment New Zealand to find out.

If you are looking for some practical and easy ways to maintain a good frame of mind then I would suggest taking note of the New Economic Foundation's (NEC) 'Foresight Project on Mental Capital and Wellbeing' research focussing on the value of implementing five actions into your daily living - connecting, giving, taking notice, continued learning, and being active. Our very own New Zealand Mental Health Foundation actively promotes these actions: