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October 2018
In 2017, Ministry of Health figures showed that one in five New Zealanders sought help for a diagnosed mood or anxiety disorder, and these figures are growing. Headlands: New Stories of Anxiety tells the real, messy story behind these statistics – what anxiety feels like, what causes it, what helps and what doesn’t. These accounts are sometimes raw and confronting, but they all seek to share experiences, remove stigma, offer help or simply shine a light on what anxiety is.
The stories in Headlands are told by people from all walks of life: poets, novelists, and journalists, musicians, social workers, and health professionals, and includes new work from Ashleigh Young, Tusiata Avia, Danyl McLauchlan, Selina Tusitala Marsh, Hinemoana Baker and Kirsten McDougall.
Edited by journalist Naomi Arnold, Headlands shows that some communities have better access to mental health services than others and it underscores the importance for greater understanding of the condition across the whole of society. It is not a book of solutions, nor a self-help guide. Instead, it has been put together for all individuals and whānau affected by anxiety. It’s also for those who are still suffering in silence, in the hope they will see themselves reflected in these pages and understand they are not alone.
Cover artwork and design: Hadley Donaldson
Read 'Arise and Pass Away' by Danyl McLauchlan.
Naomi Arnold is an award-winning journalist. After working as a daily news, columnist and feature writer for five years she turned freelance and now writes full-time for New Zealand and international publications, frequently on health, the environment, and science. She is the founder of Featured, a website that collects the best of New Zealand’s non-fiction writing. She has hosted a journalism podcast with The Spinoff, appeared on writing and media panels, reviewed books for Radio New Zealand, and coordinated the Nelson Readers & Writers Festival. She lives in Nelson.
Introduction
Naomi Arnold
Arise and Pass Away
Danyl McLauchlan
Lucky to Be Here
Rebecca Priestley
Water Wings
Sarah Lin Wilson
What Happens
Zion Tauamiti
Not Standing Upright There
Paul Stanley Ward
The Beginning
Aimie Cronin
In a Scorched Room
Michelle Langstone
Dream Selves
Kirsten McDougall
On Citalopram
Anthony Byrt
Fake It Till You Make It
Eamonn Marra
It Needs to Start Early
An Interview with Riki Gooch
Voices
Donna McLeod
Showing Up
Hinemoana Baker
Naming
Bonnie Etherington
Mrs Housewife
Holly Walker
The Curse Machine
Kate Kennedy
Worry People
Madeline Reid
Scared to Death
Kerry Sunderland
Anxiety in the Body
Rosemary Mannering
Earnest PSA
Susan Strongman
Side Effects
Paula Harris
Writing from a Dark Place
Lee Murray
Moving Earth
Selina Tusitala Marsh
Sit in the Fire
Jess McAllen
The Midst
Allan Drew
My Geography
Yvette Walker
A Short History of Unease
D.A. Glynn
Micronutrients and Mental Health
Meredith Blampied and Julia Rucklidge
Ghost Knife
Ashleigh Young
Mountain View Road
Mikey Dam
As Fresh as They Come
Tusiata Avia
