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With Love and Wafflenugget | 6. The Unmentionables

The hard truth of our current (and very broken) mental healthcare system for people with serious mental illness

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Kate Speer
Nov 21, 2025
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Hello everyone! This is Amy here to introduce the next chapter of Kate’s memoir (as she finds these kinds of summaries impossible to write)…

Where we last left off Kate was on the brink of losing her freedom forever to a locked psychiatric ward. Her last hope was the appointment she just scheduled with the only doctor in the area, Dr. Cortado (a pseudo…

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