Mary O'Hagan – Making Sense Of Madness From The Inside
Mary O’Hagan is a visionary and leading international expert in mental health recovery based services. From mental health service user to mental health commissioner, few can match her experience.
Ben Cragg – Playing Chess Against Yourself
Ben Cragg is the mysterious frontman of The Benka Borodovsky Bordello Band, who have built a significant following with their unique, energetic and strangely infectious brand of gypsy music
Shona Clarke – My Perspective
Shona Clarke, Youth Advisor, brings her perspective and experience to encourage mental health services to listen and act on what young people are saying about the services they receive.
Tim Hagan – A Life Less Travelled
Tim Hagan, specialising in graphic design in film making at AUT, is making a short film about ‘Obsessive Compulsive Disorder’ called A Life Less Travelled.
Judith White – Getting Inside Her Own Head
In a review of her novel Across the Dreaming Night, Iain Sharp called Judith White ’second to none when it comes to depicting states of anxiety, both comic and poignant.'
Latest Interviews
Mary O'Hagan – Making Sense Of Madness From The Inside
“Sanity is the container madness sits in; they are made for each other like a cup is made to hold drink. Sanity stops madness from spilling everywhere. Madness stops sanity from confining us to the tyranny of the ordinary.”
Ben Cragg – Playing Chess Against Yourself
“This is why I love acting so much – I love creating a character around myself, sort of like building a shell, but still allowing me creative control of what aspects of myself I express.”
Shona Clarke – My Perspective
“Young people with mental health issues can be seen as bad, and are punished for their behaviour, rather than their behaviour seen as a reaction to the things occurring in their life and the social inequities that exist.”
Tim Hagan – A Life Less Travelled
“People commonly view mental distress through skewed portrayals shown in popular media. Ideas of secretive, finicky introverts sidestepping cracks denigrate a person’s real experience.”
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"Anxiety contributes to my intense interest in people...to try and understand what makes people tick in a seemingly normal sort of way."
"What’s it like to be mad? I guess that’s where the complexities really begin, because language, with all its wondrous abilities . . . fails miserably when it comes to describing madness"
“Mental Health - in my opinion - is no mystical complicated thing. It happens every day in every way to everyone.”
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