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Advice: Long-term relationships are hard and we have to keep actively working at them.

My wife and mother can't stand each other and I'm fighting with both of them.

COMMENT: Practice is key and be gentle if you find it hard to stick to this goal.

OPINION: Mental Health Commission's recent review reveals some news - and it's not good.

ADVICE: Cutting off contact with a parent is more common than you might think.

Changes in lockdown levels spur anxiety, however, this is to be expected.

Mind Matters Psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald answers your mental health questions.

ADVICE: Leaving relationships that are abusive is hard.

Mind Matters Psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald answers your mental health questions.

Mind Matters Psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald answers your mental health questions.

ADVICE: "Toxic positivity", a friend with a problem, and coming off antidepressants.

ADVICE: Not all resolutions are created equal. Here's how to make lasting change.

Psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald answers your questions.

Psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald answers your questions.

COMMENT: It will come to define not just our lives but a whole generation.

Psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald on what's lacking from famed behavioural therapist.

Our roads are overwhelmed and existing public transport is bursting at the seams.

At this time of year, for those it struggle with their drinking, it can be hell.

COMMENT: Fear is a powerful motivator and politicians understand this.

Psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald on what's behind our intergenerational tensions.

And what it did for our collective neurosis as a nation.

Arming more police will only serve to guarantee one outcome: more people will be shot.

How did we reach a point where we need to force institutions to care via regulation?

Psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald on the real problem with illicit drugs.

People's responses provide a pretty clear litmus test, writes Kyle MacDonald.

COMMENT: Promoting "wellbeing" does nothing for those battling overwhelming depression.

This is what generational change looks like, writes Kyle MacDonald.

Angry about the measles outbreak? Be careful where you target it, writes Kyle MacDonald.

No one wants to own being "racist", but we need to talk about it, writes Kyle MacDonald.

It can be easy to take voting for granted when you've always had the option.

Psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald on why he's chosen not to take out health insurance.

Quietly, people have always practised all sorts of ethical non-monogamous relationships

Fracturing the bond causes deep and lasting harm, writes psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald.

Kyle MacDonald on the truth about creating our own successes, or failures.

Psychotherapist responds to a question that divides, sparks fear and sows misinformation.

Psychotherapist asks if interest in the Dunedin woman with OCD came from the right place.

Maybe it's time I started listening to Kanye, writes psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald.

Will we look back and say this is where the transformation started, asks Kyle MacDonald.

There's a problem with believing psychological pain is an illness in the first place.

We punish too easily in New Zealand, writes Kyle MacDonald.

It's a fact: you can't learn to talk from a screen. But is the advice out there helpful?

We know a lot less about why people kill themselves than anyone is comfortable admitting.