Did anybody see the Black Saturday doco on ABC last night? I only caught the end of it but it did strike me that a lot of what they were saying about trauma and recovery is the same as what we go thr...
My partner lost family in those fires. Sudden violent loss of loved ones is a shock to the system. My diagnosis on top of that was yet another indicator that life is not always going to work out how we want it to. Starngely, the really awful thing was the compensation payment. The bleak realisation that someone much valued had been weighed, measured and assessed as worth a dollar amount that is now sitting, untouched, in a bank account continues to be problematic.