Suliana Kaota could hardly recognise herself as postnatal depression took over.
Photo: RNZ / Claire Eastham-Farrelly
Warning: This story includes verbal abuse scenes and discusses suicide.
Suliana Katoa is at home in Tāmaki Makaurau with her three children, watching
Coco the movie, when she considers suicide.
It is raining hard. Suliana s husband and parents have just headed off to ako hiva (church choir practice).
She grabs a basket full of washing to fold on her bed. She glances at her newborn lying peacefully in his cot and her eldest daughter, who is cuddling a bowl of popcorn.
Suliana spies her two-year-old son sitting on the floor with his milk and cookies.
Suliana Kaota could hardly recognise herself as postnatal depression took over.
Photo: RNZ / Claire Eastham-Farrelly
Warning: This story includes verbal abuse scenes and discusses suicide.
Suliana Katoa is at home in Tāmaki Makaurau with her three children, watching
Coco the movie, when she considers suicide.
It is raining hard. Suliana s husband and parents have just headed off to ako hiva (church choir practice).
She grabs a basket full of washing to fold on her bed. She glances at her newborn lying peacefully in his cot and her eldest daughter, who is cuddling a bowl of popcorn.
Suliana spies her two-year-old son sitting on the floor with his milk and cookies.
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Locked in cells, physically, sexually and emotionally abused: a man tells the Royal Commission of Inquiry about his life in state care from ages nine to 15.
Kohitere Boy s Training Centre in Levin was one of the main welfare institutions that has been the subject of complaints.
Photo: Aaron Smale/RNZ
A Samoan man, X, 63, has given evidence to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care at its hearing in Auckland this week focusing on abuse and neglect of children in residences run by the state, such as homes for boys and girls, and in family homes where children were fostered.
Fears anorexic patients aren t getting the help they need
27 Apr, 2021 07:20 PM
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Susan, 22, has been fighting to survive in a medical ward in Christchurch Hospital for the past week due to severe anorexia. Photo / 123RF
Susan, 22, has been fighting to survive in a medical ward in Christchurch Hospital for the past week due to severe anorexia. Photo / 123RF
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Warning: Some people may find aspects of this story distressing.
Susan , 22, has been fighting to survive in a medical ward in Christchurch Hospital for the past week due to severe anorexia.
It began when she was 14.
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Her mother Fiona said she was discharged from South Island Eating Disorder Service (SIEDS) early last year after her treatment journey came to an end. Since then, the illness has intensified.