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Podcast: Spiraling Higher
Episode: 77. Kate Speer: There Is No Shame In Mental Illness
Description: Mental Health activist, writer, and speaker Kate Speer authentically shares her mental health journey from feeling different as a child to being diagnosed with ADHD and later a misdiagnosed bipolar disorder. Feeling unsupported from such a young age by the education system due to limiting criteria for diagnosis as well as the stigmas surrounding mental illness, Kate experienced a myriad of symptoms.*Trigger Warning* : This episode discusses suicide and psychosis. These mentions are authentic to the storyteller.After experiencing 15 years of disabling mental illness, chronic psychotic breaks, enumerable psychiatric...