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Dear Australia, your sympathy helps, but you can’t quite understand Melbourne’s lockdown experience – The Conversation AU

Collective trauma research tells us if you haven’t been through the event, you’ll never quite understand. That doesn’t mean people outside Melbourne haven’t had…

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The joy Melburnians feel about coming out of lockdown is palpable, but another thread is also emerging: if you dont live in Melbourne and havent experienced what weve experienced, you cant actually understand what weve been through.
COVID has affected all Australians, but these last few months have been different for us.
Research on collective trauma and community recovery after disaster and upheaval tells us this is common in groups that have faced terrible or challenging experiences together.

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