By Simon Brunsdon and Brett Graham UPDATE: David Warner has taken aim at Cricket Australia after the governing body announced changes to its Code of Conduct that will allow Warner to apply for his leadership ban to be lifted. Warner was handed the lifetime ban in the wake of the …
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A woman who survived the Brussels airport terror attack has died after choosing to be euthanized due to severe depression and PTSD she suffered following the incident. 23-year-old Shanti De Corte was walking through the departures lounge of the Belgian airport in Zaventem on March 22, 2016, with her school classmates …
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When conflict broke out in Kaddy’s Senegalese village in early April, she was forced to leave her belongings behind to save her family. “We lost everything. When we left, we could not take anything with us. Our animals, our food; everything was destroyed in the fighting.” Together with her husband …
Read More »Pete Davidson in ?trauma therapy? following Kanye West?s attacks on social media
Pete Davidson has reportedly been in “trauma therapy”, largely due to Kanye West’s attacks on social media. Sources told People that West’s frequent attacks are one reason Davidson has “been absent from social media.” A source said; “The attention and negativity coming from Kanye and his antics is a trigger …
Read More »Psychotherapists help Yazidis heal layers of trauma in Iraq
Listen to this story: Duhok, northern Iraq – Rawnaq Abdulrahman peeks out of the door of her counselling room and invites Ahmad in. The slim 37-year-old settles across from the psychotherapist, his leather jacket melting into the comfortable leather armchair. A lamp floods the room in a warm glow. Photographs …
Read More »First Person: The South Sudanese refugee helping others through trauma
Ms. Tiep lives and works in Omugo II, an extension of Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement, which is home to 43,000 refugees from South Sudan. After receiving counselling from the Spotlight Initiative, a UN-EU partnership, she became a volunteer psychosocial support assistant with an NGO in Uganda, helping other women and …
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