Mental Health: We need change now | Mike King | The Common Room
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- čas přidán 11. 08. 2023
- Every year thousands of Kiwi kids struggle with their mental health. For various reasons they become overwhelmed by the waves of life and feel like they’re drowning. So is the system helping them or failing them? Watch Mike King, Founder of I Am Hope, share his thoughts.
*this video references suicide
Transcript:
I want to share with you a story. It's a story about a little girl named Maddie, who lived in Tauranga and loved swimming in the ocean. One weekend, Maddie and her family went to the Mount for a swim.
Now picture this: it’s a beautiful day, the sun’s shining, there’s an offshore breeze creating perfect conditions. Maddie’s in her element, she’s splashing around and riding the waves. But as the wind picks up and the waves get bigger, Maddie begins to struggle.
She fights hard to get back to shore, but the waves are relentless. Just then, she spots a lifeguard and with all her might, she swims over and manages to make it over to him.
The lifeguard noticing she’s in trouble, quickly pulls her onto his ski and asks if she’s okay. Maddie explained that I’m ok now, I just felt overwhelmed by the waves. She told him she was grateful for his help and found comfort in knowing he was there before jumping back into the water.
As Maddie resumed swimming, the waves continued to grow, and once again, she found herself in trouble, so she swam back to the lifeguard, who once again restored her confidence and helped her back into the water. Over the next few hours, this cycle repeated itself, but each time she returned to the lifeguard seemed less sympathetic.
He told her to keep swimming and stop being a drama queen. He told her to look around at what a beautiful day it was, look at all the other kids all having fun, heaps of kids would love to be in her position, and he kept pushing her back into the ocean even when she told him she felt like she was drowning.
In one last desperate attempt, she grabbed onto his ski, and was begging him to paddle her back to shore. But he nonchalantly said, that’s impossible, it can’t be done. He said, if I help you, that means I abandon all of these other kids who might need me, and in my view, you’re no worse off than any of them. And then, for one the final time he pushed her back into the water, where tragically, Maddie gave up and drowned.
Now, while the story is fictional, the little girl and the lifeguard aren’t. The little girl represents the thousands of kids who, for various reasons, become overwhelmed by the waves of life and feel like they’re drowning. The lifeguard symbolises our dedicated mental health teams in hospitals all across the country, overworked and under-resourced by their masters at Te Whatu Ora, trying their best to handle the influx of struggling children, before facing the impossible task of deciding who to help and who to leave behind.
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We love you Maddie and Portia and we are fighting for you everyday💜💜
I hope Maddie Inspires Change and the people are heard in her name, My little cousin ❤, I’ll miss you forever and I’m so sorry the system failed
I’m so sorry for your loss
@@IndiaBriggs-pn2fi thank you, my Aunty Leanne and Uncle Gareth hope by sharing this story, some change will come. Don’t hide your voice. Aim it at the government and be heard
I hope so too. And I’m hoping that with my letter to parliament and Chris hipkins, that this will inspire change
So true
The system should be geld accountable as nothing changes without accountability.
Well done, Mike, powerful message that should be on tv
we miss and love you so much Maddie, you were everything to us.. even tho I never met you irl the story's lola told us and the times you texted me giving me compliments and boosting my confidence meant the world to me, miss and love you Maddie, thank you for helping to change the shitty mental health system in New Zealand, you really made a big impact on the world hun 💜💜💜
I miss you Maddie 💜🕊️
To Mike King, I like your interview with Jenny May two years ago. Mental Health system is TOO BROKE!! I spoke to the Mental Health about my older brother's medication and why there has been no proper psychiatric assessment done for him for over 30 years, and the same medication he has been on has made life for him worse as the years have gone by. I went to the Police to talk about my older brother and the medications he has been on for many years. Yet the Police gave me the Mental Health Crisis phone number. I did ring the Mental Health Crisis number and gave them a earful about the psychological and emotional abuse I have suffered at our house because of a medication that has made my older brother worse as the years have gone by.
I believe Privacy Laws need to change to make things easier for the system to recognize family members and what they have experienced with those who take psychiatric drugs at home and have those talks more openly.
Matt
MIKE YOU'VE GONE THE DISTANCE.."You Have To Speak UP"!!!& Ill.nva..People Have Died No Thanks.Goes to THE SaS.Cads..@WAKARI..IVE NO RX.MEDS FOR Today n Tommorrow..No bio done..7ml.Worst mistake ever made was to think Them mofo'z.Will Finally.help."THIS IS AFFECTING EVERYONE.SO TO SEE YOU'VE GOT NOT 1.LIKE/SUPPORT.NOTHING NEW THERE..JUST WANT TAKEN OFF.!!?&To get better.THEY WILL NOT EVEN ANSWER THE PHONES UP @'WAKARI.SO HEARING THIS..WORD 4 WORD ..WTF Is wrong When no one WILL GET INVOLVED..EVER,! YOU DONT WANT TO GO TO JRE W/-'Dr John Abrahamson.."WHY IS IT ONLY 2COUNTRIES ALLOW BIG PHARMA..IN?]1'US GUESS THE OTHER.WGTN THE LOT SHOULD BE TOOK TO COURT.But if you like being oppressed Stik wth 0.nothin.will look the same..😢😢😢😢666
Another deeply felt post from our own hero @mikeking - keep up the great work Mike 🙏🏻🤍
Exactly !
This is why we need TRUTH and JUSTICE They Must PREVAIL 💀⚔️🕊️
Hope That more will read & That.Will also Give A Comment./s.Thumbs up!!As its Very Sad to Hv to hv these Fuckin Ol'M8's..cm @'me..got any.?!Just hv let themselves become ['Willing Victims?!]ok about using getting an'Rx.out them.But Venting BeMoaning..re[Cads Dn.Sass!]"IM ALWAYS SHOWING MIKE'S GREAT EXAMPLES.To which'We Can Approach These Ppl.that get ampliy Salaried..w/'perks..That kp us in the Dark..thru all kinds..if not the Same "We Cant Comment"!&"They phone up 'Yr Case Worker's Away.on lve?!"&We want u to go to A far away Chemist for my Sun.C.on.Prem.![7.mls.!]Gonna hv to count myself dwn 1mg per day.!As they wont even though hv done this b4!//AnyWay.Im onboard With Mike K.Have Dwnloaded this &Lots more too.Feel ive got 1 Daughter.3.G'kids..Ext Family..So i want to get CLEAN/&'AWAY FROM ANY OF 'THEM'!&,Try to be of Some Help.To Them &'B there As theyre all great on to it Kids..But Just in case.Apologies as im still going thru.stuff.but Feel THIS IS WHAT BECOMES OF IT WHEN NO ONE GETS INVOVED.Re;No Thumbs up.few scant Comments..!C'mon Now or.+'!GREATIST ANALAGY[?]'MIKE HAS PUT 4WORTH!Sad too but 'SPEAK UP".Feel this is pt of that ol'Stigma.'[?]Hope more Folk.kiwis.Speak up.NOW.FOLLOW MIKE.ANYTHING.!#BHD.@Sportscafe.w/Mike King.Hv a ❤..thanks.
I miss you so much Maddie 💜💜💜
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Question...is there no Private help?
For 300$ a session, plus medicine. For someone who battled mental health for 4 years I had over 1000 appointments, privately that would cost 10’s of thousands
justice for maddie and everyone who was and is being failed by the system 💜💟💜🫶
🌺 P R O M O S M
Who is the mans minister?
So poignant and so URGENT.
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