Do animals experience mental illness?
Like anyone else who has suffered a blow, people whose animals have died are vulnerable. One follow-up study of individuals who were mourning the loss of a companion animal found that in the weeks immediately after the death, more than 90 percent of the owners experienced some disruption of their sleep habits or had difficulty eating — both symptom
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I Was the Poster Girl for OCD. Then I Began to Question Everything I’d Been Told About Mental Illness
Rose Cartwrighttheguardian.com
You don’t immediately think, “This tiger needs to go to tiger therapy and get a prescription for tiger anti-depressants so it can feel better about living in a zoo and stop feeling sad about having to suppress its wild instincts”. You don’t think the tiger needs to “get over it” and make the most of its situation. You don’t consider showing the tig
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