Mental Illness in Animals
Posted on August 9, 2019
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It seems self-evident that animals, who suffer from the same physical diseases as we do, can also suffer from similar mental disorders. Post Trauma Stress Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Self-harm, Anxiety, Depression have all been studied in animals in the wild and especially in captivity. If you want to know how animals feel begin by asking yourself: How would I feel without freedom to express my natural instincts, with extreme boredom and confinement, with trauma and loss…..?
Read the BBC Earth article by SHREYA DASGUPTA here:
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