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Davis immediately pulled over.

Dunedin South MP Clare Curran is now approaching organisations and authorities on behalf of the man who reached out to Davis for help.

"I rang him and said 'don't do anything to hurt yourself'."

The MP then texted his colleague Clare Curran, Labour MP for Dunedin South, asking her to contact emergency services.

While police and ambulance staff were making their way to the man's house, Davis kept him talking.

It was a long night with a lot of texts, calls and stressful moments.

Curran said thein the same situation."

Curran said the man has visited her at her office or called her about three or four times a day for the past five weeks.

He was increasingly desperate and agitated and was "crying out for help".

"The risk is not just to himself either, that's why I've been so dogged about this I believe the whole community is affected."

New Zealand is set for another year of horrible suicide statistics, especially in places like Northland and West Coast.

Davis said this man was not an easy person to help but it was the job of mental health services in New Zealand to help people in this situation.

"He's hard work, but that's mental health."

Like many others who end up in New Zealand's prisons, he did not have an easy