 I said to you I cannot emphasise how scared he gets, it is ridiculous, but it's actually ridiculous. I thought there was something like that. Yeah, are you okay? Aw, I feel sorry for you. I know, are you okay? Everyone got a bit upset when she saw it. I'm just like, I'm just being careful because like... That's what the only thing I was nervous about. Yeah, that all was nervous about you coming. It's fine. But when they don't take him back it's worse, obviously. The whole thing, the whole time he was literally covered in fur. This is what the video is about today. I'm going to talk about Satsuma because Satsuma is a registered emotional support animal. He is. And that's where Becca comes in. Let the games begin. Ah! Oh. I'm going to go look for this. I know, I'm going to go look for this. Yeah. It's okay, Sarah. Emotional support is humans today. What are we doing today, Becca? We are taking Satsuma for his MOT. See you. I'm going to have my careers because I'm a bit hungry. We're just staying at one at the moment. We're just going back to hers for her to get some more stuff. So, I wanted to talk to you about emotional support animals. So, can you tell I'm not a camera woman? I can deliver your baby. I can't film a video. There must be a better way to do this so I don't have to like hold the camera. I don't think there is. I think I'm going to have to hold the camera. Yeah, so you were just looking for the earlier footage. We took my cat Satsuma to the vets this morning. He's like perfectly fine. There's nothing actually like wrong with him. It's just he's like yearly. Yeah, we just take him every like just so he can have his like booster vaccine. And so they can like weigh him just check him over and stuff like that. Just make sure he's still like healthy and everything like that when he was. So that's great. But I wanted to talk to you guys about emotional support animals because Satsuma is a registered emotional support animal. So I have BPD, EUPD, whatever you prefer to say. Depression anxiety and stuff. So I had Satsuma from when he was a kitten. So he's five now. I've had him since he was eight weeks old and I was diagnosed BPD 11 months ago. So it'll be a year in like a year next month. I would have been a year diagnosed. So phone notifications. Emotional support animals are I don't think they're like legally recognized. They're not sort of like service animals where obviously a service animal like a guide dog or something like that. They have to allow you to take a guide dog anywhere basically because obviously like you need it to function. Lots of like a blind person. If they had a guide or they literally couldn't go around the shop if they didn't have the guide dog or whatever. So they have to obviously allow you to bring the dog in. Whereas an emotional support animal, they can refuse like businesses and companies and stuff can refuse them entry. It's the things like say for example, I was getting a like a flap and person said I was like renting and the landlord said like there's no pets allowed. I could say that I will have a registered emotional support animal and he has like there's like paperwork and stuff to like I'm not just making it up. Like he genuinely is registered emotional support animal and they have to kind of take that into consideration and be a bit more lenient. So like if they're saying like there's no pets allowed and I say like well I have like this cat but he's like he's an emotional support animal and they have to be a bit kind of nicer to you. So that's that and I don't know how long he's been registered now like six months maybe. I didn't do it straight away when I got diagnosed. I didn't actually know they existed, emotional support animals. My cousin just said to me why don't you see if you can get him registered as one and I was like oh my god and this world was open up to me. I didn't know you could do that. But yeah so I just don't know if anyone else out there that's like got pets. If you don't have pets it's like difficult to explain how vital pets are to recovery and stability. My cat has like I'm not joking saved my life. I think for a lot of people I think I don't know like some people are okay but some people are like it's just a cat. Some people give more status to dogs and they think like a dog I could understand but a cat like it's just a cat. It's not just a cat like he's not just a cat. Like he's my world and I love him to pieces and like I've had him since he was a baby. He's like my little bean and yeah and as I said he's like saved my life. So he's really important to me and I remember once to give an example. So some of you will if you follow me or if you like watched videos before. Oh yeah that's an example. Yeah so yeah so that's what I was going to say. So some of you may know I am training to be a midwife. I'm currently on a study break because my mental health got too severe to continue. So I'm currently on a study break I'm going back in the summer to the hospital like to sort of like get used to hospital again and then start probably back in the September to do my final year and then I will qualify and but back in like April time maybe last year I had a mock exam at uni. It was like a practical. I failed the mock exam basically for my emergency module. I was like not very prepared like when I went in and I just wasn't in a great headspace to be honest with you at the time. I did pass the actual exam like when the actual exam was like three weeks later. Yeah like about three weeks later and I actually did really well with it but yeah so I did the mock and failed it. Got home and just like felt dreadful and it kind of like built and built and built like the feeling I remember just like laying in bed and crying. Like the next morning after I'd failed it I was just like crying and just felt worse and worse and worse. By the next morning I was like crying. Like I was like oh my god like I might as well just quit my degree like I'm clearly not meant to be a midwife like I'm clearly gonna like end up killing someone blah blah blah blah blah and I was just like crying and crying in bed like I didn't want to talk to anyone. I was like this is just like so shit and Satsuma dumped up on the bed and just like sat like you know the cats like loaf like he just like loafed next to me and just like let me hold his paw and I'll just like cry my eyes out and like holding this cat's paw and yeah and he just like let me hold his paw and he just like purred and purred and purred and purred like it was like he was saying like I love you mummy like that sounds so cringe probably to like those of you that like don't have pets yeah it was like he was telling me that like it was gonna be okay and like he was there for me and stuff and he's just yeah I just love him to pieces and I mean particularly like even the morning that I had my crisis I had like a really like a really really bad crisis and I had to like put the crisis number and it was awful and like it was just the worst day of my life again like stayed with me like in bed while I was crying and just like stayed with me and like didn't leave me on side I feel like cats people always say that like particularly cats yeah people think cats are sort of like quite unfeeling they're quite yeah like just aloof they're quite like you know that they don't really care but actually cats are actually really emotional and like I was reading something that said that cats sleep by their owners at night time and Tatsuma does always sleep in my room with me he always sleeps like next to me like in his basket like obviously I'm in bed like he's in the basket next to me and people say that I read that the cats sleep next to you because in the wild it's like dangerous it's like they're on guard so like they're like sleeping next to you to like make sure that you're protected so I thought it was so cute I just like wouldn't be like where I am now if it wasn't for Tatsuma my phone's like going off crazy I can use like every 10 seconds about the blooming coronavirus so I'll like show you some pictures of him so this is him as a kitten I don't know if you can like how well you can see yeah like he's always been like really cuddly like so to get them registered I can't remember how I'll look now actually what it's called I think it's ESAUK so basically like there'll be a link in the description so it's just with this website here so we'll put the link like in the description so yeah so I'll just read you like what it says on their website so an emotional support animal is a pet that is required for a person's ongoing mental health treatment by a licensed therapist, psychologist, doctor or any licensed mental health professional as part of their ongoing treatment programme that is designed to bring comfort and minimise the negative symptoms of the person's emotional or psychological disability so basically Tatsuma is like to get him registered as an emotional support animal so basically Tatsuma is like it's like he's my prescription if that makes sense so like he's my prescribed medicine so hold on a minute Lydia's calling me okay are you okay? yeah are you sure? sorry so yeah so basically Tatsuma was like licensed as my treatment so he has a certificate and he has like a little ID card it's like so cute that I will show you those leggings are so funky yeah so yeah I don't know what else like to say if you have any questions then like you can ask oh so there can be any age so I think I said earlier didn't I? Tatsuma was five so he was five in December his birthday is two days before Christmas so he was five in December so if you have any questions I don't know if this has been like very informative sorry the camera was like moving around a lot I might record this again at some stage Lydia thinks it looks messy but she's the better judge of that I will leave you guys there if you have any questions about Tatsuma but I have obviously not my social media anyway like I've got Twitter, Instagram and stuff like that so you can ask my questions if you have anything you want to know and I'll put the link to the website where you can get your pet registered as an emotional support animal sorry but the only thing sorry important thing I have to say you do have to pay to have them registered as an emotional support animal so I have to pay £50 a year for Tatsuma to be an emotional support animal and it's £50 per I think it was per animal so say you had like more than one obviously I think you have to pay like £50 for each of them to be registered I believe I'm not sure of that though because obviously I only have one pet so obviously I didn't really look into like multiple pets but I think you have to pay like £50 per one you need like medical evidence obviously to say that you are diagnosed with the condition that you're saying that you're diagnosed with and that the animal provides benefit or that the just the presence of the animal helps alleviate your symptoms but I would say Tatsuma they never actually asked me but like I have got it written like in a letter like I did get my psychiatrist to write it in one of the letters that he sent to my house that like to actually specify that Tatsuma that Tatsuma being there really really helps my symptoms yeah so sorry if I've like rambled or if I've like talked about stuff that's not not relevant um yeah okay