ISSUE NO. 10
May 2025
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Letters

Life Changes From the Bottom Up

By
David

David writes from Long Bay Hospital in New South Wales.

Willy Pleasance

Dear About Time,

Your December, 2024 issue of About Time lived up to a standard of quality journalism second to none.

Thanks to your staff and all who contributed letters, stories, artwork, sound information, legal opinions, humour, therapies to enable transformation and the like.

A wise author, José A. Pagola shared:

“…Our life changes from the bottom up…”

This is my experience.

My bottom: suicide ideation at 45 years old. A chronic alcoholic. Powerless. Broken. Hit bottom.

My “God” worked through caring, broken, healing others like many contributors to About Time, and with my willingness to “grow up”, co-operate with help offered, I am free – even in prison.

This is the continuous “therapy” I receive from those considered on the “bottom.” Never doubt your goodness.

Thank you all, my tears are the melting of my emotional iceberg!

May it continue to melt!

Shalom, David.

Dear About Time,

Your December, 2024 issue of About Time lived up to a standard of quality journalism second to none.

Thanks to your staff and all who contributed letters, stories, artwork, sound information, legal opinions, humour, therapies to enable transformation and the like.

A wise author, José A. Pagola shared:

“…Our life changes from the bottom up…”

This is my experience.

My bottom: suicide ideation at 45 years old. A chronic alcoholic. Powerless. Broken. Hit bottom.

My “God” worked through caring, broken, healing others like many contributors to About Time, and with my willingness to “grow up”, co-operate with help offered, I am free – even in prison.

This is the continuous “therapy” I receive from those considered on the “bottom.” Never doubt your goodness.

Thank you all, my tears are the melting of my emotional iceberg!

May it continue to melt!

Shalom, David.

Staying Strong

By Mel

My name is Mel. In July, my partner overdosed while I was locked up in Tasmania. The staff there were amazing.

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I want to propose a system where once a week or once a month it is an option to donate to a charity from money from our inmate accounts.

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‘I Continue to Laugh in the Face of Adversity’: Newtown’s ‘Dreamer’ Muralist on PTSD and Prison

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'Nuff Respect, Kudos, and Vast Appreciation on your Magnificent, Pertinent and Poignant Periodical that just keeps getting better. WORD UP!!!

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ISSUE NO. 21

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Autism and Mental Illness: Prison Isn’t the Right Place

By Garry

I would just like to mention a few things I’ve noticed around prison regarding inmates with both autistic and mental illness traits. Who says these inmates are right to go to prison and not a hospital?

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