Youth suicide prevention and intervention information service.

New Zealand teenage depression. The youth division of Parenting with Confidence Inc. This site is designed to encourage mental and emotional resilience and to help teenagers make choices that will avoid them sabotaging their future.

Set up to advise the Government on Mental Health issues.

A group who aim to information and support for people living with bipolar disorder in New Zealand, as well as to raise awareness of bipolar disorder in the wider community.

Provides support, education and advocacy to anyone affected by bipolar disorder (manic depression).

Provides free mental health information and resources on all aspects of mental health and mental illness to the public.

A group who provide community and residential support for people with intellectual and/or psychiatric disabilities.

This business provides courses to get people over a phobia of air travel. Over four sessions people learn to identify their fears and prepare them for commercial flights.

Life Consulting takes the major strengths of both counselling and life coaching, and combines the two to be a service which assists individuals to solve problems, set goals and achieve extraordinary results.

The Durham Counselling Centre in Christchurch is a multi disciplinary counselling practice providing a comprehensive range of quality; counselling, psychotherapy, and psychiatry services.

Extraordinary advances have been made in the treatment of mental illness. An understanding of what causes some mental health disorders has led to greater sophistication in tailoring treatment to the underlying basis of each disorder. As a result, many mental health disorders can now be treated nearly as successfully as physical disorders. Most treatment methods for mental health disorders can be categorized as either somatic or psychotherapeutic.

Throughout the lifespan of stress management research, experts have argued about the exact definition of the word stress. There are many opposing viewpoints, and like many words in our language, the conflict lies in the way the word is commonly used in popular culture. When most people hear the word stress, their muscles tense and they expound on feelings produced by situations like time restraints, emotional pressures and the responsibilities of the daily grind.

At one time, doctors believed that the hormones associated with pregnancy were a good protection against depression. In more recent years, however, there has been a growing body of evidence that depression during pregnancy is a serious problem, affecting 10-20% of all women - the same proportion that women as whole suffer without adding pregnancy into the equation.

Though it's sometimes referred to as a fleeting condition, the specific term anxiety refers to a lingering condition. It's certainly true that a person can be temporarily anxious about some upcoming event or other, but anxiety can and does persist over an extensive period of time. Anxiety as a chronic disorder in fact is exceptionally common, trailing only depression among persistent psychological problems.