Excerpt from: Oregon Live (click for full article)
Psychiatric Service Dogs are invaluable to persons with invisible disabilities such as post traumatic stress, depression, anxiety, etc. PSD's are afforded their place in a person's daily life under The Americans With Disabilities Service Act.
Many different kinds of people suffer from post traumatic stress, and many different things cause post traumatic stress. Yet, through all this diversity, there is one common thread among persons with PTSD: The inability to experience, elicit, or be moved by comfort. Soothing. Nurturing, Peace. Joy.
Children go through this, too, not just adults. Children who suffer from post traumatic stress have often been abused. Daily life with friends, school, community and family routines are often fraught with worry, hypervigilence, anxiety, isolation, sleep problems, nightmares, inability to trust and engage in nurturing relationships. These kids find it hard to have fun, to explore, to try new things. They often have a hard time concentrating and sometimes in despair just cannot, cannot be soothed.
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