PTSD Service Dog Bella & Me our story of training and healing together

PTSD Service Dog Bella & Me our story of training and healing together The life of Bella an American Cocker Spaniel who spent the 1st 18 months of her life in a small cage & was saved by Julian & Marianne.

IN turn she is helping Marianne cope with complex PTSD & Chronic pain , as they help each other heal.

04/03/2025

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Matt here, afraid my mums page has been hacked and is unable to use this page anymore.
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Bella watching TV with Julian
16/08/2022

Bella watching TV with Julian

Well it has been a week of events, latest is a letter saying that need formal confirmation with a face to face evaluati...
16/08/2022

Well it has been a week of events, latest is a letter saying that need formal confirmation with a face to face evaluation, but according to the official tests I am Autistic. Not sure how long it will take till I get evaluation as the back log is quite long.

I had yet another night terror last night woke up my chest hurt so much I thought I was having a heart attack. Always th...
14/08/2022

I had yet another night terror last night woke up my chest hurt so much I thought I was having a heart attack. Always the same my family hate me I've done everything wrong but I don't know what happened and why they hate me so much.

My Mum has disowned me and my Brother already hated me and my sister for fears of losing her inheritance has fallen in place.
My mother says it's to teach me a lesson that I'm selfish. I didn't do enough for my Dad when he was alive. That is nonsense we spoke at least twice a week, I sorted his benefits, food shopping, medical, doctors, listening to his stories.
Whereas my Mum has sold everything connected to my Dad within a year of him passing, not filled out his dying wishes, sold all he owned, and disown his side of the family and his middle child. I got zero from my father passing even though he was worth £millions.
I don't think he would be happy that all I got was CPTSD, pycosis hallucinations nightmare, terrors and memory loss.
What I really think is that I have always been seen as the failure in their eyes, the black sheep, the no body. I was never given any help. So for me to be invited by The Queen, to attend the celebration of the Platinum Jubilee. And be on TV with the Royal family, was too much to bear. I am meant to fail.
So blame me for something that Dad didn't even say.
But I'm good, but Dad would be sad if he saw you had done.

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My Bella is doing so well not getting triggered by her sister when she barks at other dogs
09/08/2022

My Bella is doing so well not getting triggered by her sister when she barks at other dogs

06/08/2022

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PTSD The story of how four legs & two legs helped to save each other

Bella came into my my in the End of October 2019 after we had lost our beloved King Charles Cavalier “ Puppy” who had been with us for many tears an was the heart of the family and the loss was a huge loss. At this time Marianne was undergoing counseling for depression and anxiety that had become too much to carry alone. However as this progress it uncovered a long buried history of family alcoholism childhood trauma, abuse from her first marriage and bulling from school. These revelations caused the walls of Marianne’s reality to come crashing down. Resulting in her hearing voices, having Hallucinations, night terrors, flash backs, anxiety, depression, and unable to cope with life. At this time her counselor went off long term sick leaving her high and dry with many months before group therapy was an option.

At this time we started to look for a new little dog for our family, we went to rescue places, but as fast as we looked they where rehomed and looked at puppies but did not want to put money into breeders hands at silly prices with all the inbreeding. It took months of looking every day on line ringing around to find we where too late . The I saw a very sad looking American Cocker Spaniel online for sale. Julian Marianne’s Hubby & Marianne went along ( only to look ) at a 18 month old pup . Well the house stank it was brown up the walls ( not paint) stank the floor was wet and sticky and a very thin sickly dog was shown to us with fur like a old goat skin rug. She was no way worth the asking price! So Yes we decided there was no way we would leave her in that hell and bought her!

First off she stank! We had to bath her & cut her collar out as it was grown into her collar & as she had spent all her life in a cage in the dark her feet had overgrown so a groomer friend trimmed her feet back. That was just day one. Trimming her fur we found a hole in her ear from bites from other dogs as well as wounds around her body. Poor Bella , well now the healing for us both can start.