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Mar 04, 2020
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This is the story of my life-saving dog, Waffle and her successor, Tugboat. 

In 2013, after a decade of psychiatric hospitalizations, debilitating mood lability, suicidality and psychosis, my doctors told me I would only survive my mental illness if I lived in a locked, long-term psychiatric ward. I refused to accept that fate and with the guidance of a …

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