A pencil drawing on display in the Main Concourse in the Legislative Office Building in Hartford is of a family, and a pill bottle. Between them is written: “These pills help our pain go away, stop the voices, stop the thoughts, cease the anxiety and inner calamity. Yet one these pills can’t stop, get rid of, is the hearts & minds of people who do not understand what it’s like to be me, to be us, who live with mental illness every day of our lives.”

Those words sum up the reason Ann Nelson mounted the exhibit “Voices: The Art of Children, Adolescents and Young Adults Touched By Mental Illness,” which will hang at the LOB until April 13.

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