Meet my therapist

Yup. He's my therapist. All 8 pounds of wiggly kitten. Though I'm sure he's growing and doesn't weight just 8 pounds anymore. This is Oscar he doesn't have a Masters or a PHD, but I'm sure he's better than most of the psych. Staff I've dealt with in my entire existence. He is probably the best prescription anyone could have ever written for me. I get up in the morning because of Oscar. Seriously. He destroys half my room in till I get up, and when I'm in the process of losing it, he seems to know just when to curl up on my chest. When I suffer flash backs he's there when I come back to reality. He's makes functioning possible and the benefits are endless.

When I went about choosing my companion I kind of knew what I wanted, I sort of wanted another Persian (when I'm not here at school I live at home that we share with five other cats, 1 dog, two ponies and a horse most of them rescues). I had originally gotten a beautiful black Persian to be my companion, but she was meant to fill my younger sister's heart. Oscar is a ragdoll cross, he goes limp when you pick him up, he'll grow to about 25 pounds and the personality of the breed fit the doctor’s orders. This was probably all an after though because I saw baby Oscar and that was game over, he was coming home.

Scenically the benefits are stated for animal based therapy, and for companion animals. It makes people lives better. It makes my life better, the unconditional and unjudgingness of those cute little eyes makes the crappyness fade away.

I’m not really talking about service dogs; as much I'd like to have a service dog tailored to my needs I just don't have that kind of money, seriously between student loans I barely can scrape up enough for groceries. If I did have money I’d have a house right next to my parents, I’d have a car, I’d be able to fix my laptop, Oscar would have every cat toy and climber he ever wanted and life would be a handy dandy dream where I had no student loan or bank debt. I’d also have every assistive piece of equipment I needed and I’d be able to pay for a decent human therapist. However I have Oscar and honestly that’s probably better then all of those things combined together.
-JJ