{"id":634701,"date":"2026-10-18T22:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T22:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/634701\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T22:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T22:30:26","slug":"why-this-islander-has-taken-to-social-media-to-talk-about-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/634701\/","title":{"rendered":"Why this Islander has taken to social media to talk about mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 16<a class=\"video-base-category-link\" aria-label=\"Content area News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>Duration 6:10closed caption<\/p>\n<p id=\"MainContentDescription\">Sterling MacKendrick says he&#8217;s seen too many people struggle in silence, while social media posts paint too rosy a picture of what&#8217;s really going on in people&#8217;s lives. He&#8217;s hoping his daily video posts will help change that. He joins CBC News: Compass host Steve Bruce to talk about his efforts to break the stigma surrounding mental health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"October 16NewsDuration 6:10closed caption Sterling MacKendrick says he&#8217;s seen too many people struggle in silence, while social media&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-634701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}