Mental Death

Ex-nurse Pamela Curr has many questions about some of the people she sees who were long-term detained and not able to get past their abusive experiences.

Pamela is not the only one struggling to understand why certain ex-detainees behave in certain ways.

Fear, insecurity and lack of trust are recurring characteristics in many people who spent way too long in Australian government immigration detention centres.

What happened to some people in detention has left them with on-going psychological difficulties.

This article from the School of Psychology at Curtin University of Technology gives us a few insights.
Read the article online at Science Direct