Out of My Mind

By: Stuff Audio
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  • WINNER BEST EPISODIC PODCAST: VOYAGER MEDIA AWARDS 2020. From Stuff’s podcast team, a series of true stories about mental health. In each episode one person talks to journalist Adam Dudding about their life, and the view from inside their head. You’ll learn what it’s like to hear voices or see things that no one else can; about the reality of living with anxiety or postnatal depression; about the lows and highs of bipolar disorder. These first-person dispatches from the front lines of mental health are powerfully moving, yet also full of moments of surprise, tenderness and humour.
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Episodes
  • Barbed wire

    Barbed wire
    Sep 15 2019
    “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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    35 mins
  • Harvey Milk and the dinosaurs

    Harvey Milk and the dinosaurs
    Sep 8 2019
    “The Foreign Legion parachute out of aeroplanes, fight wars and slither through jungles, and for some people that might have some appeal. But for me it was an opportunity to reboot and start again.” – Andy Cawston decides that abandoning his family, his home and his career to take up arms abroad will solve all his problems. It takes a while to figure out that the answers in fact lie much closer to home. * 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    29 mins
  • Another realm

    Another realm
    Sep 1 2019
    “When my father arrived his face morphed into something really devil-like. People that I loved shape-shifted right in front of me. And you can't stop it just because you don't believe it's true.” — Karlo Mila is overcome by terrifying visions and voices while visiting Tonga, and is told it is psychosis. Many years later, though, she starts to question what was really going on when her reality fractured. * Content warning: Strong language; discussion of suicide. * If you want to talk to a trained counsellor, call or text for free to 1737. * www.stuff.co.nz/outofmymind Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    38 mins

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