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Mental Illness Resilience Project
Art Gallery

A mental illness resilience project – Smashing stigmas around mental illness by sharing and honouring stories of mental illness resilience.

Competition Entries

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A painting on a square canvas. There are aqua green and deep maroon swirls.

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Wish

Jo

A painting depicting trees in the background with a lake in the foregournd. on the right side the colours are dark and grey. On the left side the colours are pink, green and yellow. There is a bright light white in the middle of the painting.

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Light breaks through

Shayma

An image of a painting hung on a wall. At the top and bottom are white words on a black background that say "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you I could walk in my garden forever. In the middle is a painting of roses in pinks and yellow, with a bigger white rose in the middle. Six birds of blue and yellow circle it.

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Flower Cloud

Tania

A painting of a small brindle dog sniffing a red rose in a vase.

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Constant Companion

Lisa

An image of an Aboriginal dot painting by a Wiradjuri artist. There are different sized dots in the centre with blues and reds.

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We Survived

Rebecca

A drawing of a woman lying on a green couch. There are birds perched on the couch, on the floor beside her, and on her.

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Little worries

Lana

Two drawings in coloured pencil. They are of a woman with black hair in a bun, wearing a long black dress. She has yellow wings.

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Wings

Maria

A detailed close up drawing of a young monkey's face. The monkey has one arm covering an eye, the other eye peers at the viewet. The monkey looks both sad and thoughtful.

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Somewhere

Pamela

A painting of a woman from the chest up. She has short dark hair and dark eyes. Her head is tilted to the left and she looks directly at the viewer. There are blots of reddish ink across the painting, including across her mouth.

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Self Portrait

Melanie

A painting of the silhouette of a woman's face. Her hair is made of flowers and foliage in black, white and light blue.

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The Wonders of the Human Mind: A Beautiful Garden of Chaotic Beauty

Kylie

A painting with lots of brightly coloured puzzle pieces at the top. At the bottom there are two hands and some puzzle pieces more sparsely. There is an eye in the top left and top bottom of the painting.

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A story of survival and resilience

Shannon

A very colourful pictures with lots of different patterns, including dots, checks, zigzags and detailed lines. At the centre are three sprials, which are made by differently decorated smaller spirals. They look like waves.

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Self Acceptance

Alexia

A photograph of a painting with sculptural elements. A tall painting has an upside down blue triangle, with a smaller upside down blue triangle inside it. The background of the painting is red with the paint appearing to fall down the canvas. At the bottom are two sculptured pieces using round ball structures and wire.

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Screaming White Light

Daniel

A painting with embroidered elements. The background is a wash of pinks, mauves and blues. At the centre is an embroidered orange and black striped starfish. Around this are colourful patterened elements.

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Malacandra

Jo

A painting with a wash of green and brown as the background. There are white lines and abstract and very intricate shapes across the canvas.

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Art gives strength

Andrea Vlahovic

A photograph of of a weeping mother, depicted through a hooded figure wearing a textile apron adorned with knitted breasts. The photograph is mainly dark.

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Weeping Mother

Sonia

A n image containing blue, purple, pink, green and darking splashes of inks.

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Destiny

Robin

A painting with lots of dark brushstrokes in greys and charcoals. There are two abstract parts of the painting that are lighter in tone . One item looks like an abstract bird, with two round black eyes.

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I manage not to fall

Emma

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Behind the Smile

Robyn

An anime style drawing of a character who is upside down. The background is dark with drops of water across it. The person is wearing dark clothes. They have marks on their knee, and their arms are folder across their chest.

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Unspoken pain

Brianne

A painting of the ocean. There are dark, stormy clouds above the ocean. The ocean itself is quite calm. There is blue sky in the distance.

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Divine Fault Line

Kim

A painting of 2 green cartoon frogs hugging each other. There are colourful mushrooms above them. they are on a glowing background of blue, pink and yellow.

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Alone at once

Shay

A pencil drawing depicting wings with detailed feathers. You can see the back of a person's head, and veins coming down from the head between the wings.

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My wings spread further

Chloe

A bright painting. The deep, dark corner of the canvas gradually transitions into vibrant, warm shades of orange and red, and then into other vibrant colour

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From darkness to light.

Glenys

A cartoon style drawing of a man with short hair. He has big eyes and an open mouth. There are lots of small demon like creatures flying around him.

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Living with my demons

Lindsay

A photograph of a sculpture. It is a unicorn standing on its hind legs. It is made from metal twisted together.

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Aluminium Mig Wire Unicorn

Twisted Murf

A black and white painting. It shows a a side view of a muscular male physique. The arms are up. The head and hands have been blotted out by the inky black background.

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Body dysmorphia

Carlo

A black and white photo of the artist taken from a low angle perspective. He is looking at the camera, one boot poised above a crack in the road. Behind him are hazy images of him walking toward the crack.

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One crack at a time

Troy

A painting with a bright blue background and small orbs of light around it. In the top half is a circle that contains spiral shapes, stars and an anchor.

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Thought spirals

Sarah

A drawing of a cloud with rain falling from it. Below the cloud are 5 roses. 4 of them are together and to the left. The other, much bigger rose is on the right. They are both being rained on.

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Full glory

Emma

Two back and white photos of the artist in the forest. At the top the camera is looking up from the ground into the canopy of the tree. At the top right you can see the top portion of the artist's face. He is wearing a hat and glasses. At the bottom the artist is looking at the forest wth his back to the camera. His arms are spread wide.

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The Forest

Troy

A stylised painting of a person in bright yellows, reds, blues and greens. At the bottom of the picture we see their smile. Their left hand is covering their left ear, and their hair covers the rest of their face.

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Hearing Colours

Elizabeth

A drawing. There is a cartoon style person at the bottom of the page. From the top of their head there are bright colours arnd patterns streaming out. The words Mess minds are magical are written beside the person in different styles of writing.

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The chaotic beauty of neurodiversity

Fig

A photo of a sculpture. Pink net bows surround the outside of a circle. In the middle there is a depiction of a woman's body using craft items. The body is in half with red strands of wool coming from the ends.

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Body Better

Brianna Brett

A photo of a sculpture. Inside a circle with white material around the edge is a woman's torso. There are flowers made of fabric across the torso, and the majority of it is covered with a gauze material that is pinned to the circle.

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Nothing to hide

Brianna Brett

An photograph of a sculpture piece. A small wooden fram with tufts of white material around the edges. Inside, on a pink lacy background is a white bead encrusted pregnancy test facing diagonally downwards. There are 4 fuschia tear drop shaped beads of various sizes below it.

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The romance of almost

Brianna Brett

A photograph of a sculpture. Inside a circle covered in pink tufts of fabric are three prescription medication bottles. They are partially obscured by fabric flowers. There are 3 metal and bead spiders.

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Heavy Heart

Brianna Brett

A painting with a brown background. A drawing of a white hand rises from below There is a bright blue and purple swirl in the middle of the painting. A white rope dangles from the top.

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Surprised myself

Earth

A painting of bright blues, greens, reds and yellow. At the centre is a woman's face from which trees appear to be growing. The woman's head becomes part of the swirling colours.

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A Peace of Confusion

Julie

A black and white photo of the photographer. They are watching 2 versions of themselves take 2 different path in a country setting.

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Contemplate all the possible

Troy

A painting with black lines coming from the centre and going in all directions, like an asterisk but with more lines. In the middle are some flecks and bigger brushstrokes of white.

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It is okay not to be okay

Lily

A line painting of a hand with the thmb and index finger pressed together in the OK symbol. There is a more detailed drawing of a sketch inside the hand.

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Actually, I’m great!

Donna

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Don’t box us in

Donna

A detailed pencil drawing of a light bulb. There is a spark of electricity coming from the filament to the glass of the bulb.

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Spark

Donna

$A photograph of a woman with her hands on hear ears and her mouth open. The photograph has been edited so it appears the woman is fracturing like broken glass. Her face and body are a bit distorted because of this.$

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Fracturing

Maria

A drawing of a Qantas plane flying over Sydney Harbour. You can see the bridge below, and boats on the harbour from a distance.

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The miracle of flight

Leon

A photograph of a putple rose bud. It is covered by wire, and there are thorns along the outside of the wires, where they meet the surface it sits on. The shadow of this image is in the photograph.

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Restricted

Rachel

A painting of a suspension bridge that is burning. Behind it is a blue and orange background.

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Bridges Burnt

Rachel

A self-portrait. A painting of a man from the torso up. He is bare chested and appears to have wounds on him. His eyes are large and he is looking directly at the viewer.

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One foot in front of the other

David Healey

Native landscape painting. A bright sun shines in the background over an iridescent aqua sea. IN the forground are red ochre rocks with bulrushes on them.

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Native landscape

Kyle

A drawing of a game landscapre viewed from above. There is a tank or ship with guns shooting at another craft from the side.

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Comfort

Daniel

A painting after Pablo Picasso's cubist piece "Weeping Woman".

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Zikasso

David

A picture on a bright purple background there are two large orchids suspened upside down at the top of the picture. There is a green hued angle statute in a garden. A smaller one is behind it.

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Garden of Malevolence

Kallisto

A painting of a dark blue lake with water lilies. At the centre is a large water lily with what appears to be a blank face with long brown hair on the lily pad, the body genrly covered by the lily.

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Seeing colours

Elizabeth

A painting of a woman crying, there are tears on her face and her eyes look sad. The background is dark blue with lighter white blended in around her head.

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It’s okay to cry

Joanne Braddy

A photograph of a sculpture. A rectangular recycled box is filled with materials and drawings that look like a colourful underwater garden bed. On the outside there is a drawing of what could be a whale in the ocean.

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Weightless in blue

Michae

A drawomg pf a dark landscape. There is a human fogure in the foreground, holding a torch. Everything in the drawing is dark, except for the warm yellow glow of the torch.

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Lonely Determination

Troy

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Grief

Lucy

A sketch in pastels. A person sits in the foreground with their knees in their chest, their head down. They appear to be shouldering the world. In the background is a body of water, the edge of a mountain and the sky.

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Uncertainty

Troy

A painting using Aboriginal painting techniques. It is on a pink background. at the centre is a large circle made of dots, with rows of circular dots going to the centre in pinks and yellows. Around the circle are white horeseshoe shapes of various sizes.

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Friendship

Tanaya

A sketch in black and grey. There is an armchair sitting under a street sign. One sign says Smith St, the other says Jones St. In the background are big cut off branches of trees.

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Abandoned: Who Will Love the Broken Things?

Troy

A painting of an angel on the left and a devil on the right. Both the angel and devil have sharp teeth and look scary. The devil has a long curled tongue and there is an eyeball in it. There is a white pentagram at the top of the painting.

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Struggle

Rylee

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From Darkness to Light….Metamorphosis

Melissa

A close-up sketch of a woman's face. She is staring directly at the camera with an almost neutral expression. There is a dark substance in the middle of her forehead and some of it is dripping to the centre of her nose.

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Support network

Amy

A painting with a metallic gold background. There is a white line to the right of the painting. In the centre is what looks like a piece of string in an abstract shape.

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Tangled

Jessica

A drawing of a bowl of wilted, rotting flowers. A bird with black feathers sits atop them agains a yellow and white background with scattered stars.

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Highs and lows

Ken

A digital image of a clover patch. There are colvers of all sizes. There is one large four leaf clover which is a slightly different, brighter green. There are other four leaf clovers amongst the patch.

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The fourth leaf

Brianna George

A painting that is predominantly blue. A wooden train track is at the foreground, on top of the sea. A whale jumps out of the ocean beside. In the sky is a round white orb (perhaps the moon) with white fluffy clouds on either side. There are whales in the sky.

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Goodbye

Ryza

Colourful yarn and strings wrapped around a wooden frame that creates beautiful geometric patterns.

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Yarn

Natalia

A digital illustration of a woman's head, insidea a birdcage. There is a padlock on the cage. Around it are bright flowers. Bees rest on them. A bird sits atop the cage.

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All the Noise

Leah Baker Dryden

Strokes of white come up diagonally from the bottom left of the image. They form an abstract creature against a stark black background.

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Creature

Seona

A painting on a black bacground. Central is the blue head of what loks like a statue. It is surrounded by red brushstrokes and flowers. A blacktipped red winged butterly floats above the head and there are brushstokes of gold behind.

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Growth

Alexandra

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Self vs Self

Bec

A drawing on a light blue background. A black bird cage sits at the bottom left. Colourful orange and fuschia inky blots dominate the centre and some of them have white patterns on them. At the top right of the image are three cogs.

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Free your mind – WINNING ENTRY

Linda Chapman

An illustration on a stark black background. a sinuous purple man's form sits cross legged holding an eyeball. There are bright blue thick string like objects around him and coming from the top of his head. A circular weaved mandala in magenta is behind him.

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Wounded healer

David

A painting with a dark. starry background. A woman in a green dress sits on the edge of a cliff on the grass. Her arms are outstretched and she is looking toward a huge colourful mass in the sky, it is blue, red and bright yellow in the centre.

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The lady of the universe

Bonnie

A graphite sketch of a window looking out side. You can't quite see what is outside. A cat walks along the windowsill. Itshead is out of frame. Under the windowsill is a small photo of the artist and boyfriend at their school formal.

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Me and My Cat

Ashley

A painting of green, pink and yellow jellyfish. At the centre is a large jelly fished shaped object with long pink tendrils that could be hair.

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Jelly fish

Toni

An illustration of a person with short hair holding a mask in front of their face. The right side of their face is visible. The mask has a big smile on it, the person behind looks sad. There is a black cloud with a dog's face above .

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Mask

Vanessa

Illustration of a woman with a short dark bob sitting at an orange table. She is holding a small indoor plant. Behind her are large, brightly coloured leaves. The words Thank you for listening are written in white across the tabletop.

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Thank you for listening

Irene

Two self-portrait paintings of the artist from the chest up. The first has a light blue background. The artist wears a green top, her dark hair is up and she is leaning on her left hand. The second is against a dark background, She has a black singlet on and her hair is up in two high pigtails. She has dark winged eyeline, lipstick and a nose ring.

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A conversation with her

Clare

An illustration of a pair of blue wings attached by sinew to a slightly heart shaped object. It has eyes and green strands running down. The heart shape is made up of different coloured in lines in different shades of red.

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Sapped

David

A painting of a woman with her straight her around her shoulders. A pigeon sits on her head and has a strand of the woman's hair in its beak.

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On my mind

Corrie

An abstract painting in light blues and apricots/orange hues. A flower is in the top half of the piece, along with a dark brown and orange object. There are some other darker objects sitting in the blue background.

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I am still here

Elizabeth

An illustration with a black-haired woman lying in the centre, chest up. A spray of blue paint covers her eyes. She is surrounded by colourful pills, bottles and different emoticons that are laughing, smiling or frowning.

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Seeking help

Kim

4 drawings of the same woman from the chest up. In the first she is facing to the right and has her hand trying to get in her mouth. In the second she is looking forward and has a brown moth covering her mouth. In the third she has a green top on, is looking forward and has a ruler with the words 'MEASURE UP' in her mouth. In the fourth she is running, and has a 'run like a girl' singlet on. There is a snake coiled around her head like a crown.

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Finding Voice (Run like a Girl)

Corrie

An abstract painting with blue, grey and white hues. It has the feeling of rough water. There are dark blue and white abstract lines which give it some depth.

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Emotional flow of life

Rachel

A abstract painting that is mainly red. There are vetical lines along the entire painting and you can see glimpses of yellow and white behind the red.

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Sun and hope

Natalie

A photo of a sketch pad on a red embossed tablecloth. A pencil lays diagonally on the right side. The bottom of it comes off the note book's area. There is an eraser below it. On the sketch pad there is a small sketch of a man with a hat running. There is a small black dog that is placed so it appears to be the man's shadow.

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Outrunning the Black Dog

Troy

A sketch of a woman and young child in a car. The young child is sitting on the woman's knee. The are both looking forward.

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Mum and me

Troy

A sketch of a woman lying down. She has her eyes closed and appears to be crying.

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Grief lives here

Tracy Mahoney

A painting of clear bottle with a cork at the top of it, sitting on the edge of a sea. Inside the bottle is a woman facing away from the viewer. She is purple and has her hands up.

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Recovery

Sue

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The here and now

Melissa

A drawing of a woman. Her head is open at the top and there are words like go away, fuck and arg coming out. There is a small creature with a red, demonic face breaking out of her body.

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The road of recovery

Kyla

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