• Barbed wire

  • Sep 15 2019
  • Length: 35 mins
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • “I was never in the same institution twice. One was like the best Betty Ford Clinic – all tempura fish and espressos and people walking around with floaty scarves. And then there was the other extreme, with padded walls and barbed-wire fences.” In her 20s, Taimi Allan is told she faces a life of institutionalisation and crippling psychiatric drugs. She’s not so sure about that. * Content warning: Discussion of suicide. * If you want to talk to a trained counsellor, call or text for free to 1737. * www.stuff.co.nz/outofmymind * Taimi is CEO of mental health charity Changing Minds. Learn more at changingminds.org.nz 9biu9iz9 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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