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Anger Inside
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Contributor: Diane Tronc
Posted: 2-12-2002
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Don't Apologize - Just let me cry
The case of Cornelia Rau's wrongful detention rightly caused national outrage. But Australia is still to respond to the many public inquries held on the institutional detention of over half a million children in this country. The tales of horrific treatment they experienced at the hands of their 'carers' brought hardbitten parliamentarians last year to tears . This is one such story.
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Contributor: Project Worker
Author: Tricia C. is a faithful Catholic, a mother and a grandmother. She has a professional background in business.
Posted: 25-8-2005
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Dream Life
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Posted: 26-2-2003
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The Corridors
A Poem
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Contributor: mereme53@hotmail.com
Author: Wayne Miller
Posted: 28-4-2003
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The System and The Law
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Posted: 26-3-2004
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When Its To Hard to cry
Amanda was raped at the age of 14. For more than 15 years she largely suppressed the pain of that experience not even telling her immediate family and largely blotted the memories out of her day-to-day life through immersion in her work on television and in the music industry. She even married and became a mother to her own children.
Fifteen years later at the approximate age of 29 a sequence of unrelated events to that rape suddenly unleashed a living hell in her physical and mental being. The trigger for these events was the death in quick succession of her father, her own daughter, and the sister closest in age to her. Not only did she suffer a complete mental breakdown but her physical body suddenly erupted in trauma that necessitated extensive surgery over a ten year period. Her mental recovery took at least the same time.
Two of the symptoms of her condition was that she could not cry and she had lost almost all feeling of things like hot and cold or the sensations of taste, smell and touch. She wrote this song during her time in St John of God Hospital in collaboration with another young patient who was dealing with a diagnosis of being HIV positive. It was the outworking involved in writing this song that eventually led to Amanda being able to cry again — and experience many of those other sensations of taste, smell and touch we all tend to take so much for granted.
During her rehabilitation at St John of God Hospital the doctors used to get Amanda to sing this song for other patients as they found it helped them reclaim their feelings and emotions as it had done for Amanda.
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Contributor: Project Worker
Author: Catholica Australia
Posted: 24-8-2006
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