When Adora is labeled as fully trained she will learn multiple tasks, to help me feel safe in public!
Here are her tasks down below
1. Alerting to high heart rate
2. Block my front and back: this makes it so I know nobody can come up behind me or in front of me without me knowing.
3. Deep pressure therapy: helps blood flow and to ground me.
4. Wake up time! It's often with depression that you get into a funk where even getting up seems hard! She will be trained to do whatever it takes to get me out of bed!
5. Go check: she will be trained to step in the house before me and look for someone who I think may be there to harm me.
6. Crowd control: she circles around me so people can't get close enough to touch me! Which can trigger an episode
7. Find exit: at times I can dissociate because of a stressful environment which leaves me unable to find a place to get away.
8. Behavior interruptions: she will interrupt self harm, knee tapping, any action that is occurring again and again!
9. Turn on lights: self explanatory! Will help with getting up after a night terror
10. Retrievals: retrieve water or medicine to help me after an episode:
11. Watch my back: stands facing the opposite direction as me, helps me feel safe at night or when I'm feeling paranoid.
12. Go find (friends name) helps find people when I'm to dissociated or need help.
13. Crying response: will lick, paw at my face to help
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