Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
A recent study found that pet owners tended to be less lonely, less fearful, more extrovert and less preoccupied than non owners.
We live in troubled times, no doubt about it. I cannot remember a time in my life when the news has been so relentlessly grim, so tripping over with eagerness to offer ever more depraved examples of the horrors human beings can inflict on each other. On a personal level, too, I've been struggling with periods of the worst depression I've experienced for many years. It's at such times that the companionship of animals can offer welcome respite both from the troubles of human beings in general and of this human being in particular.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/02/dog-positive-impact-mental-health
We live in troubled times, no doubt about it. I cannot remember a time in my life when the news has been so relentlessly grim, so tripping over with eagerness to offer ever more depraved examples of the horrors human beings can inflict on each other. On a personal level, too, I've been struggling with periods of the worst depression I've experienced for many years. It's at such times that the companionship of animals can offer welcome respite both from the troubles of human beings in general and of this human being in particular.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/02/dog-positive-impact-mental-health