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Not Forgotten: They called me Number 10 at Neerkol Orphanage Kindle Edition

by Samilya Bjelic (Author), Anne Moorhouse (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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In 1954, two-year-old Samilya was abandoned by her migrant parents and placed in St Joseph’s Home, known as Neerkol Orphanage, outside of Rockhampton in Queensland, Australia. After suffering years of insidious abuse at the hands of the Catholic nuns and priests, at age 10, Samilya is returned to her mother’s care where the trauma continued.
Not Forgotten: They called me Number 10 at Neerkol Orphanage, as told to Samilya’s friend, psychologist Anne Moorhouse, lays bare the lifelong effects of horrific childhood abuse and neglect. A psychological overview places Samilya’s trauma in developmental context, and explains Samilya’s mental health diagnosis, dissociative identity disorder.

Samilya is one of 500,000 so-called “Forgotten Australians” who were placed into childhood institutions from 1920–1970. Not Forgotten follows her marathon fight for elusive justice from the 1999 Forde Inquiry through to the 2013 Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

Each day Samilya fights to survive, to work, to have a home, to be a good partner and a loving mother. All Samilya has ever hoped for is an ordinary life.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09CK1PP98
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ InHouse Publishing (August 11, 2021)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 11, 2021
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 5919 KB
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Anne Moorhouse

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As a practising psychologist I have witnessed the damaging impact of childhood trauma on the lives of the innocent. I have sat with many clients who have struggled to free themselves from the legacy of trauma and move on to form healthy relationships, learn, engage in work, find delight in life, and hold hope for the future. I am frequently frustrated that perpetrators of abuse often go unpunished. I am also constantly amazed at the resilience and capacity of the clients that sit with me.

Assisting Samilya to tell her story has been hard work and great joy. I provide the psychological scaffolding, so readers understand how trauma and abuse led to Samilya’s mental health diagnosis – dissociative identity disorder. Narrating Samilya’s story allows me to speak not just for her, but for many others whose voices are silenced by helplessness, fear and despair and the power of others.

Not Forgotten: they called me number 10 at Neerkol orphanage is my debut book. I also have a blog, Notforgotten, which I infrequently post on. The blog includes a discordant range of topics including challenges to psychological practice, caring for Forgotten Australians, relationships, travel, and....crochet.

I have one other professional publication on resilience and unemployment. I am unlikely to write another book ... but who knows.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Must read!! A voice for those who were silenced for so long
Reviewed in Australia on August 16, 2021
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I was recommend this book by a friend & once I started I couldn’t put it down.

A horrible & heartbreaking part of Australian history that needs to be heard by all.

This book gives a voices not just to Samilya but all survivors. The forgotten Australians are no longer forgotten.

Reading this book had given me a new perspective, when I stand in line at the supermarkets next to a stranger or pass a stranger in the street, to be kind as you never know the life someone has lived.
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Alex
5.0 out of 5 stars Must read!! A voice for those who were silenced for so long
Reviewed in Australia on August 16, 2021
I was recommend this book by a friend & once I started I couldn’t put it down.

A horrible & heartbreaking part of Australian history that needs to be heard by all.

This book gives a voices not just to Samilya but all survivors. The forgotten Australians are no longer forgotten.

Reading this book had given me a new perspective, when I stand in line at the supermarkets next to a stranger or pass a stranger in the street, to be kind as you never know the life someone has lived.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliantly written, sad but eye opening
Reviewed in Australia on September 8, 2021
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Well done Anne!!! What a wonderful friend you are!
Samilja, I,m so terribly sorry for all the pain and suffering that you've gone through and still do! You are such an inspiration and such a strong woman. Good luck with everything else.
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