Causes Of PTSD And Anxiety

Doctors will sometimes then prescribe things like medications and sometimes therapy sessions in order to ‘help’ people that have depression and/or anxiety. Pets can help though with things like this. They can be there for emotional support, and studies show when people pet animals such as cats, it calms them and keeps them from having times of severe depression and anxiety. The article, “Can Cats Help With Depression And Anxiety?”, states, “Cats also help in making you more active. Cats are not ideal characters (unless they're sleeping), rather the love to run around and play. Actively engaging in playtime with your cat can help relieve you of any anxious feelings or help avoid” (Bribri, 2017) Having a cat around can calm someone and keep them from having their anxious feelings for the time being. Having a cat with someone can keep them calm, and take their mind off of worries and other anxious thoughts and/or ideas as their focus is in their cat. This can make a great positive impact on the life and/or lives of a person that is dealing with or trying to deal with their anxiety. Another quote is, “The first reason for why cats can help you with your mild to moderate depression or anxiety is by giving and receiving unconditional love. Whether you realize it or not, your fluffy kitty loves you dearly and you love kitty back. It’s a wonderful, uncomplicated love that you look forward

Emotional support animals can take on a multitude of jobs that “may include reminding the handler to take medicine, providing safety checks or room searches, or turning on lights for persons with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, interrupting self-mutilation by persons with dissociative identity disorders, and keeping disoriented individuals from danger,” (Brennan). These animals are often considered pets but are actually so much more than that, emotional support animals have a very important role in protecting the mental health of their owners and keep them safe. Not only do these animals protect people’s mental health but they also give people a purpose. Taking care of one of these dogs or other animals gives people something to take care of and focus on. Knowing that there is another living thing that relies on them can be very grounding and keep people connected to something outside of themselves.

Main point one: Companionship is important to have in your life, even if it comes from your dog. When life gets stressful it’s nice to have a companion to play with, take a walk with or even cheer you up. Companionship can be hard to come by with humans sometimes and easily found in dogs. While their personalities vary according to the breed of the dog, one characteristic remains the same, their loyalty. Dogs make great listeners, maybe because they can’t tell you to stop talking, but either way they seem to listen with interest. Many dog owners find themselves telling dogs things they can't seem to tell anyone else. This is what makes dogs good therapeutic animals. A dog is an especially good animal for someone who lives alone or suffers from depression. Having a dog present can also help people who have suffered a tragic loss in their life and need the company of another life for comfort. I know from my personal experience of losing a loved one, what a dog can do to help you through. Owning a dog gave me responsibility at me weakest and gave me a

These dogs learn many tasks so they are specialized for their certain patient. Therapy dogs learn special tasks to decrease the anxiety in a patient during certain situations, so “Stanek trains his dogs to perform 10 or so PTSD-specific tasks. Some of them are designed to ease concerns about blind spots, not unlike the way a military unit designates someone to watch troops' backs or to scout ahead. Stanek's 2-year-old Catahoula mix, Sarge, for example, has been trained to check around the corner to see what's in the next aisle at a store.”(Thompson 3). When therapy dogs are in public areas, they tend to use tasks like checking around the corners at stores. Those with PTSD sometimes believe there are attackers around the corner. This helps relieve stress of the war veteran by assuring that when the veteran turns the corner they will not get hurt. Not only do the dogs go through training to become perfect for their patients, but they also have to become trained in “normal” tasks, whether their patients use it or not. A therapy dogs may be complicated or not but either way “To qualify as a service animal, dogs must be trained to do work or perform tasks like providing safety checks and room searches for a person with PTSD.”(Thompson 3) . When dogs successfully pass the tests to become a therapy dog, people know therapy dogs are effective at reducing symptoms due to all the standards they must meet. People can usually tell when it is a therapy dog or a pleasure dog just by how they act. Therapy dogs tend to be much calmer and are very good at calming people down. The special training dogs go through make them not only able to but also extremely talented at decreasing a PTSD patient’s

Every year there are well over 7 million cases of PTSD that are announced (Kledzik). A small percentage of the people on Earth at some point in their life span will have some form of PTSD. A solution that will be able to help these people is commonly referred to as “man’s best friend.” For many years PTSD dogs have been useful to relieve the severe symptoms of this disorder. They have proven themselves to be more than just an animal. Post-traumatic stress disorder dogs are far beyond just man’s best friend; they protect the protectors far after the wars end.

Dogs will protect you and they can also provide comfort and support in forms of affection and companionship for an individual suffering from various mental and emotional conditions.

Many men, women, families, and roommates have some kind of dog as a pet, but what else can dogs be rather than just a companion? Studies show that when owning a dog it reduces stress. Yes stress! Not only does owning a dog reduce stress but it can prevent heart disease and high blood pressure. It’s healthier for everyone to have a dog because having someone to be there for people gives comfort, prevents sadness or depression and loneliness. Even though dogs can just be pets, they can also have important jobs like guide dogs, search and rescue dogs, and war dogs.

Being supportive often consists of being there for each other. Dogs are pack animals, so whatever we do, they will support us. By being supportive, dogs can ease us from stress, anxiety, and even depression. Many Studies show that interactions with dogs can decrease stress in humans. Just looking at or petting an animal can increase levels of Oxytocin. Every day when I come home my dog greets me with support and genuine happiness, this relieves me from all the baggage I've gathered throughout the day. Knowing you have someone to come home to that will support you and love you unconditionally is a great source of happiness and stress reliever. Dogs act as a role model for those with anxiety, dogs only live in the present so they're not thinking about tomorrow or yesterday. My dogs have helped me cope with anxiety, by helping me to become more mindful and appreciate the present. Dog owners are also less likely to have depression. Caring for a living animal helped me to feel more needed and loved, and it has always taken my mind away from anything negative that might have happened during the day. Talking to my dogs always help me to work out my problems. It’s hard to feel lonely when you get to come home to somebody who's always happy to see you. Replacing fear and self-criticism with self-love is easier while having a friendly companion by your side, and doing so makes life easier to manage and more enjoyable.

This evaluation based off an article and sums up that efficiency as well as ways in which treatment for military personal with PTSD is associated with counseling and medication and now they are testing with pet rescue dogs. With counseling, this helps you to understand your thoughts and discover different ways to cope with your feelings, which has shown to be effective for treating PTSD. There are several different medications such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, which help military personnel feel less worried, stress, or sad. These types of therapy have shown to be effective as well as this new rescue dog program, although, this program is just taking off;

It has been studied that animals help with emotional support. I’ve heard that just the purr of a kitten and the presence of a dog can help someone with an emotional condition. I believe that this is true. I’ve seen a bunch of people who have these animals, mostly known as emotional support dogs. The United States Dog Registry states that emotional support dogs are dogs that provide comfort and support in forms of affection and companionship for an individual suffering from various mental and emotional conditions. These dogs assist with conditions such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder/mood disorder, panic attacks, fears/phobias, and other physiological and emotional conditions.

Dogs can also help lower your cholesterol, relieve stress, and boost your self-esteem and of course, we don't need research to tell us they are always there when we need a

(Introduction) What makes dogs such good companions and comforters? Is it their unconditional love? Their non-judgmental attitude? Their amazing loyalty? Or could it be a mix of all of these? Dogs have been used for therapists for a very long time. As one reporter states, “The use of pets in medical settings actually dates back more than 150 years” (Reporter, 2012). So why are dogs good for therapy? And what benefits do they bring? And what do they actually do? One reporter who works for a therapy dog agency seems to sum it all up: “Science is finally confirming what people have known intuitively for years: therapy dogs help people physically, emotionally, and socially” (Becker, 2016). The real question is: Can therapy dogs actually bring benefits and improvements into peoples’ lives that would not otherwise have been there? The answer: yes. Why? Therapy dogs change and improve peoples’ lives because they offer support to struggling patients, they do not judge people who are feeling low about themselves, they help people see the joy in life, they release hormones that improve our bodies. In other words, “It’s something us dog people have always known: dogs improve our lives, and sometimes even save them” (Geir, 2015).

Household pets are a very good distraction when someone has anxiety. The reason why is because “pets have long been touted as being beneficial to their owners’ health and well-being” (Torres 2). When you are a pet owner, taking care of your pet distracts you. The owner has to walk, feed, and love the animal just as much as you would a human. Pets are also very comforting, so they never feel alone. Most people with anxiety tend to feel alone and useless, but when they have an animal or pet by them at all times, they never are alone. Children with parents in the military tend to get anxiety as well, so pets help them cope. “The high prevalence of animals in U.S. households and the impact that human-interaction can have on mental health and well-being suggests that pets may be an important family strength that could be a key element in

Pet therapy is an incredible way to help people who have anxiety, depression, and to relieve stress. They are different from service animals because they are for everyone. Service animals are for the specific person they are assigned to. Therapy dogs are trained well and tested on how well they react to certain situations. For example, how they react to being around a lot of people and how well they can handle being pet by multiple people. They also get trained on how they handle large crowds and different sounds. The therapy animal we got to meet was a wonderful Lab named Kodi. he was very adorable and could handle all of us petting him and being all around him. His owner told us that he can sense when someone is in distress or feeling extreme

Both cats and dogs like to have their owners stroke their back or scratch behind their ears. There have been studies that show stroking your pets coat can relieve anxiety. This action is soothing for both the pet and the owner. Raising pets is a good