Psychologists call what the Ballarat community is going through 'collective trauma', which happens when a fundamental aspect of a community is damaged.
With a population of about 113,000 people, Ballarat is the third-largest city in Victoria, behind Melbourne and Geelong.
He spent the next couple of years finishing years 10 to 12 at Damascus College, where one of Mrs Murphy's children is a student. He describes collective trauma as "some fundamental aspect of our experience that our community is damaged"."If that doesn't recover, then we now live as though this kind of event might happen any day to anyone anywhere," Dr Gordon says.
"We have noticed that, in the community, people are mentioning, people are saying on a daily basis what is happening, there is a level of anxiety and level of concern," she says.Dr Gordon says one of the ways to deal with collective trauma is to connect with each other."That is where I think the flowers and the vigils are very, very valuable for showing that a core of the community cares.
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