ABSTRACT
This chapter is primarily devoted to an interpretation of what participants did and felt in response to violence, destruction and upsetting events occurring simultaneously in the former Yugoslavia and Australia. It argues that the prolific and repeated reporting of the Balkan war collided with participants' memories of the region. This experience gave rise to feelings of hurt and devastation, and involved bouts of extreme emotional distress, as people tried to live amid the carnage. The chapter discusses the feelings of being distant and unable to concentrate; feelings of frustration; severe emotional exhaustion; feelings of becoming out of control; and an urge to get violent towards other nationalities and groups from the former Yugoslavia living in Australia. It endeavours to show how these problems of living have been framed by local and global processes. The chapter portrays the participants' feelings of frustration, emotional stress, anxiety, anger, worry, fear, guilt, not eating, and, not sleeping.
