{"id":335,"date":"2016-12-13T08:05:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T18:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/?p=335"},"modified":"2016-12-13T08:05:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T18:05:30","slug":"pets-and-their-role-in-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/13\/pets-and-their-role-in-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Pets and Their Role In Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s12888-016-1111-3\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s12888-016-1111-3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I happened upon this post and was amused to see that it&#8217;s taken this long to assess the role that pets play in mental health. During my marriage, my spouse and I had a black and tan female shiba inu. We adopted her when she was just past a year old and I&#8217;ll admit she won us both over immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Pets pass no judgement and for\u00a0those of us suffering from mental illness it&#8217;s a huge thing to be unburdened by. I can understand how the study found pets at the central support circle for people. Though I do not have a pet now, it&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve considered. Having to take care of another living thing is a focus and helps to keep you engaged. If you&#8217;re having difficulty in finding a stable support circle and have the capacity for a pet, talk to your health care provider, see if you can get an emotional support animal. It might be that extra little bit you need to help with the difficult times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s12888-016-1111-3 I happened upon this post and was amused to see that it&#8217;s taken this long to assess the role that pets play in mental health. During my marriage, my spouse and I had a black and tan female shiba inu. We adopted her when she was just past a year old and I&#8217;ll admit &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/13\/pets-and-their-role-in-mental-health\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pets and Their Role In Mental Health&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-slice","category-depression"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_0081.jpg?fit=1360%2C765","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PG4O-5p","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}