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Experience of mental illness: post-natal depression

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Experience of mental illness: post-natal depression

Former prime minister Dame Jenny Shipley and her husband Burton described their personal experience of post-natal depression to the Mothers matter website, run by the Postnatal Depression Family/Whanau New Zealand Trust. Shipley describes her experience as 'one of the most debilitating things I have ever endured ... How I wish that a website like www.mothersmatter.nz had been available to me at that time.'

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Mothers Matter

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Warwick Brunton, Mental health services – Mental health and mental illness, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/29393/experience-of-mental-illness-post-natal-depression (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Warwick Brunton, i tāngia i te 6 April 2011.