Heidi Everett on foxes, care and language of the mental health

Heidi Everett on foxes, care and language of the mental health system

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Based on more than four decades of lived experience in the public mental health system, Heidi Everett uses the lyricism of music and the drawings of a four-legged friend to describe her various mental states. In doing so, she expresses the difference between treatment and cure, recovery and healing, and existing and living

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