Category: Suicide
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Welcome to Remembering Randall Podcast Series
Welcome to the Podcast Series, Remembering Randall, in honour of my brother who almost 42 years ago chose suicide over the prospect of being returned to Wolston Park Mental Hospital, for being gay. This podcast series is not only in his honour but of the 1000s like him whose lives were destroyed by their treatment…
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In honour of Francesca and Randall- Suicide Victims From Wolston Park
A podcast by Professor Selena Bartlett Neuroscientist, brain health and fitness leader and advocate, Professor, author, speaker In honour of Francesca and Randall. Join Kerry Carrington and I on the Thriving minds podcast-link in the comments. Our siblings, Francesca and Randall, were both made ward of the state at Wolston Park in 1970’s and 1980’s. This interview…
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Randall’s Story
My brother Randall Scott Carrington was detained involuntarily in Wolston Park Hospital 1978 to 1979. He was given 36 rounds of shock treatment, copious experimental psychotic drug treatments and effectively chemically castrated. He suicided at 20. Qld State Archives have refused me permission to access my brother’s case files, as the files of patients like…