Kyle MacDonald
@kylemacd.bsky.social
Psychotherapist | Author | Broadcaster | Co-host of “The Nutters Club” on NewstalkZB | Director at the Robert Street Clinic | Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa - New Zealand 🇳🇿 💚 | See link to buy my book “Shit Happens”: https://linktr.ee/kylemacd
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Kyle MacDonald
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Australian Author Opens Up About Mental Health Journey
Australian journalist and published author Jonathon ‘J.Mo’ Moran, shared his personal journey through mental health struggles, his upbringing in Canberra,
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How to start recovering from BPD | Psyche Guides
How to start recovering from BPD | Psyche Guides
Borderline personality disorder is often misunderstood. Here’s what you should know about it and how to get real support
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November 11, 2025 at 4:59 AM
How to start recovering from BPD | Psyche Guides
“Asset recycling” as a fucking spin reframe can fuck right off.
November 10, 2025 at 7:36 AM
“Asset recycling” as a fucking spin reframe can fuck right off.
Banning teens from social media won’t keep them safe. Regulating platforms might
Banning teens from social media won’t keep them safe. Regulating platforms might
The burden of online safety shouldn't fall on young people themselves, while the systems that foster harm continue unchecked.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Banning teens from social media won’t keep them safe. Regulating platforms might
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If you'd told me that a speaker at the Free Speech Union conference would call for banning non-Christian public expressions of faith to an applauding crowd, I would have said yes, obviously that is going to happen newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/10/t...
November 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
If you'd told me that a speaker at the Free Speech Union conference would call for banning non-Christian public expressions of faith to an applauding crowd, I would have said yes, obviously that is going to happen newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/10/t...
ChatGPT as Your Therapist? Here’s Why That’s So Risky
ChatGPT as Your Therapist? Here’s Why That’s So Risky
Using AI chatbots for “therapy” is dangerous, mental health experts say. Here’s why
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November 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
ChatGPT as Your Therapist? Here’s Why That’s So Risky
How to Cultivate an Abundance Mindset in Teens Without Spoiling Them
How to Cultivate an Abundance Mindset in Teens Without Spoiling Them
How do we teach our kids to feel “full” on the inside without tying their self-worth to things, praise, or approval? With emotional abundance, of course.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:59 AM
How to Cultivate an Abundance Mindset in Teens Without Spoiling Them
Far fewer Americans support political violence than recent polls suggest
Far fewer Americans support political violence than recent polls suggest
Well-known flaws in conventional polling methods may be creating the incorrect perception that many Americans think political violence is justified.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Far fewer Americans support political violence than recent polls suggest
Dale Purves, the neuroscientist who makes sense of the brain | Aeon Essays
Dale Purves, the neuroscientist who makes sense of the brain | Aeon Essays
How can you have a picture of the world when your brain is locked up in your skull? Neuroscientist Dale Purves has clues
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November 8, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Dale Purves, the neuroscientist who makes sense of the brain | Aeon Essays
Regulators struggle to keep up with the fast-moving and complicated landscape of AI therapy apps
Regulators struggle to keep up with the fast-moving and complicated landscape of AI therapy apps
As mental health chatbots driven by artificial intelligence proliferate, a small number of states are trying to regulate them.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Regulators struggle to keep up with the fast-moving and complicated landscape of AI therapy apps
Loot boxes are still rife in kids’ mobile games, despite ban on ‘gambling-like’ features
Loot boxes are still rife in kids’ mobile games, despite ban on ‘gambling-like’ features
Games with ‘loot boxes’ should be classified for over-15s – but a new study shows many of the most popular mobile games completely ignore the rules.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Loot boxes are still rife in kids’ mobile games, despite ban on ‘gambling-like’ features
Lifeline to cut operations if funding shortfall not plugged | RNZ News
Lifeline to cut operations if funding shortfall not plugged
A mental health support service says it will have to reduce its operations if it cannot plug a $2 million shortfall.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Lifeline to cut operations if funding shortfall not plugged | RNZ News
Lifeline to cut operations if funding shortfall not plugged | RNZ News
Lifeline to cut operations if funding shortfall not plugged
A mental health support service says it will have to reduce its operations if it cannot plug a $2 million shortfall.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Lifeline to cut operations if funding shortfall not plugged | RNZ News
Wellington depression recovery centre will close its doors after no funding reprieve | Stuff
Stuff
Accidental meeting invite from Health NZ gave false hope but no reprieve for Wellington mental health service
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November 6, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Wellington depression recovery centre will close its doors after no funding reprieve | Stuff
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It’s important to note that he was the person responsible for protective security during the time period many many people from the PM to me were receiving regular death and rape threats. The past is making more sense to me now.
He also told a colleague that over the years he had needed different types of pornography to "make him feel anything, and it just kept escalating".
Those aren't better work stories, and that's definitely not a safer community...
#nzpol
Those aren't better work stories, and that's definitely not a safer community...
#nzpol
Former Deputy Police Commissioner Jevon McSkimming's offensive search terms revealed
Court documents reveal the extent of former Deputy Police Commissioner Jevon McSkimming's viewing of objectionable material on his work devices,
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November 6, 2025 at 6:33 AM
It’s important to note that he was the person responsible for protective security during the time period many many people from the PM to me were receiving regular death and rape threats. The past is making more sense to me now.
Is narcissism really on the rise among younger generations? | Psyche Ideas psyche.co/ideas/is-nar...
Is narcissism really on the rise among younger generations? | Psyche Ideas
A fresh investigation of vast numbers of young people from around the world has thrown up some surprising results
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November 6, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Is narcissism really on the rise among younger generations? | Psyche Ideas psyche.co/ideas/is-nar...
You’ve achieved your dream. Now what? | Stuff
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In this week's column, clinical psychologist Karen Nimmo explains that flat feeling following a major achievement.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
You’ve achieved your dream. Now what? | Stuff
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NEW: Colorado voters approve tax increase on high earners to fund school meals, food stamps coloradosun.com/2025/11/04/p... #copolitics #coleg
Colorado voters approve tax increase on high earners to fund school meals, food stamps
Proposition MM's passage means Colorado will be able to fully fund free breakfast and lunch for all public school students
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November 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
NEW: Colorado voters approve tax increase on high earners to fund school meals, food stamps coloradosun.com/2025/11/04/p... #copolitics #coleg
The Psychological Value of Repentance
The Psychological Value of Repentance (Gift Article)
Every major world religion has a process for moral accounting. That’s something we rarely talk about in secular society.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
The Psychological Value of Repentance
Pushy parents are ‘biggest problem in sports performance’, say psychologists
Pushy parents are ‘biggest problem in sports performance’, say psychologists
Unsportsmanlike conduct in grassroots football and on the sidelines at school events is on the rise. How can parents support their child in the right way?
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November 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Pushy parents are ‘biggest problem in sports performance’, say psychologists
‘Putting lives at risk’ - mental health service facing closure after government funding dries up | Stuff
Stuff
‘Putting lives at risk’ - mental health service facing closure after government funding dries up
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November 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
‘Putting lives at risk’ - mental health service facing closure after government funding dries up | Stuff
Mental health crisis: Wait times for distressed callers more than double as urgent calls for help rise
Mental health crisis: Wait times for distressed callers more than double as urgent calls for help rise
Crisis teams are often only able to respond to “the worst-case scenario”.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Mental health crisis: Wait times for distressed callers more than double as urgent calls for help rise
Mental health services fragmented, inaccessible - report www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Mental health services fragmented, inaccessible - report
The Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission is calling for a national mental health crisis response system.
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November 4, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Mental health services fragmented, inaccessible - report www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
My Son’s Marriage Is Falling Apart. Should They Stay Together for the Kids?
My Son’s Marriage Is Falling Apart. Should They Stay Together for the Kids? (Gift Article)
Our Ask the Therapist columnist, Lori Gottlieb, advises a reader who worries that her grandchildren are being harmed by their parents’ messy relationship.
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November 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
My Son’s Marriage Is Falling Apart. Should They Stay Together for the Kids?
Individualized Understandings of Mental Health Mislead Us
Individualized Understandings of Mental Health Mislead Us
Questioning the shortcoming of diagnosis as it separates the person from their world and detaches their pain from their circumstances.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Individualized Understandings of Mental Health Mislead Us
Gee, isn’t it great that having a dedicated Mental Health Minister.
This is a travesty - we have lost too many high quality services in the last few years.
This is a travesty - we have lost too many high quality services in the last few years.
NZ's first depression recovery centre at risk of closing for lack of funding | The Post
The Post
The country’s first depression recovery centre may close in the coming weeks for lack of funding, unless an “angel” steps in.
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November 3, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Gee, isn’t it great that having a dedicated Mental Health Minister.
This is a travesty - we have lost too many high quality services in the last few years.
This is a travesty - we have lost too many high quality services in the last few years.