Sakura's Journal

So I've been seriously considering getting a Psychological Service Dog. Aside from doing tons of research on the web I've actually talked about it with both my parents and my therapist said he would help me get one. I just feel like everything I fought so hard for- all my freedoms, have been taken away by my mental illness. a PSD could give me back my freedoms- stop me from wandering in to traffic, helping me find my way when I get lost, distracting me from compulsions (oh yeah, my therapist thinks I have mild OCD), help me tell the difference between a hallucination and reality, let me feel safer out and about with out a human companion. Right now I don't leave home with out another person. I'm too scared, I black out too much. And the blacking out scares me because I've had (non-substance induced) black outs like this before and bad things usually end up happening. Normally when someone else is in charge I at least get to observe. But not so with the black outs.