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SERVICE DOG needed. Please Help!!

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Hello, my name is April. I am 31 years old and I have been suffering from severe depression and anxiety since I was a very very young child, with a history of attempted suicide. Recently, however, at the age of 31, I found out a lot of things that have helped make better sense of the things I went through growing up especially those things that I could not make sense of but learned to go along with. Even if I was viewed harshly, since I had no explanation I just send them as my own wrongdoing or choice. I was however diagnosed with PTSD, BPD, and Dissociative Disorder and that the repetitive nightmares I have had since the age of 7 or 8 yrs old were in fact repressed memories. Unfortunately, all of these things mixed together is a cause for concern. Especially with my ever growing Anxiety that has a habit of triggering my dissociative disorder which has caused issues in which I either had no memories of had every bit of memory of but had no control over as if I were watching myself in a movie. I was advised to get myself a psychiatric service dog in order to increase a better outcome in my everyday life. There has been so much I have had to try and come to terms with and so much to try and accept, which honestly has been very hard to do. I guess the hardest thing to accept is that I am the way that I am now and suffering threw out all these years because someone somewhere decided it was okay to hurt an innocent and defensive little child. What happened to me happen between the ages of 3 and 5 years of age.   Due to my ever growing anxiety living a normal somewhat carefree life has become close to nonexistent. All the things I thought nothing of and took for granted I now have to go over and over again in my head before being able to act if I could at all. I have become afraid of even leaving the house. My anxiety always existed and I grew to know how to hide it well. But due to my Dissociative Disorder coming to full force and making itself quite known I have grown anxious at the idea of even leaving the house and losing myself or baning into someone when I am not myself. My anxiety has become a clear trigger in my Dissociative Disorder but my anxiety has become something I find myself struggling to control. My DD has also caused me to end up in hospital a few times already, when I have switched and an alter more inclined to feel the need to end their life has taken a over and did exactly that. They tried to kill themselves (in the end would of liked the entire system). A service dog for me means I have someone there who can pick up on these changes and help prevent those kinds of things from happening.  So my specialist suggested a psychiatric service dog would be good for me so that I could also gain some independence once again and be alerted to on coming in anxiety attacks or switches. Sadly, however, there is no government funding for a psychiatric service dog and therefore all cost is out of pocket. As I no longer work as I cannot even enter the world I have no funds to get myself a service dog and cover the first animal vet fees I would need to pay to ensure the pup is in good health and to even begin the pups training into becoming a service dog.  With 2 young children to care for and rent to be paid I just don't have that money. I wish I could work to get the money myself but I can't due to my anxiety. Its all become a vicious circle I can't seem to escape from. So now I ask for your help. Please, any little bit counts, it all helps me get that bit closer to having a service dog. About Anxiety https://www.beyondblue.org.au/the-facts/anxiety/types-of-anxiety/ptsd  About Dissociative Disorder aka DD https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/dissociative-disorders/symptoms-causes/syc-20355215  About Borderline Personality Disorder aka BPD http://www.bpdaustralia.com/about-bpd/  About Repressed Memories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repressed_memory  About Post Tromatic Stress Disorder aka PTSD https://www.sane.org/mental-health-and-illness/facts-and-guides/post-traumatic-stress-disorder

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April Sevilla
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Omanu Beach, NZ

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