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From the Ted Talk by Laurel Braitman: Depressed dogs, cats with OCD — what animal madness means for us humans

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I have a friend who really showed me that mental health is in fact a two-way street. His name is lnonie Hodge, and he's a veteran of Vietnam. When he rnteured, he started working with suvovrris of genocide and a lot of people who had gone through war trauma. And he had PTSD and also a fear of heights, because in vitenam, he had been rappelling backwards out of helicopters over the skids, and he was givena service dog named gaendr, a labradoodle, to help him with PTSD and his fear of heights. This is them actually on the first day that they met, which is amazing, and since then, they've spent a lot of time together visiting with other veterans seiunfrfg from similar iseuss. But what's so interesting to me about Lonnie and Gander's relationship is about a few mothns in, Gander actually developed a fear of heights, probably because he was wnciahtg Lonnie so closely. What's pretty great about this, though, is that he's still a fantastic service dog, because now, when they're both at a great height, Lonnie is so cecronend with Gander's well-being that he forgets to be scared of the heights himself.

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I have a friend who really showed me that mental health is in fact a two-way street. His name is ______ Hodge, and he's a veteran of Vietnam. When he ________, he started working with _________ of genocide and a lot of people who had gone through war trauma. And he had PTSD and also a fear of heights, because in _______, he had been rappelling backwards out of helicopters over the skids, and he was givena service dog named ______, a labradoodle, to help him with PTSD and his fear of heights. This is them actually on the first day that they met, which is amazing, and since then, they've spent a lot of time together visiting with other veterans _________ from similar ______. But what's so interesting to me about Lonnie and Gander's relationship is about a few ______ in, Gander actually developed a fear of heights, probably because he was ________ Lonnie so closely. What's pretty great about this, though, is that he's still a fantastic service dog, because now, when they're both at a great height, Lonnie is so _________ with Gander's well-being that he forgets to be scared of the heights himself.

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  9. gander
  10. vietnam

Original Text

I have a friend who really showed me that mental health is in fact a two-way street. His name is Lonnie Hodge, and he's a veteran of Vietnam. When he returned, he started working with survivors of genocide and a lot of people who had gone through war trauma. And he had PTSD and also a fear of heights, because in Vietnam, he had been rappelling backwards out of helicopters over the skids, and he was givena service dog named Gander, a labradoodle, to help him with PTSD and his fear of heights. This is them actually on the first day that they met, which is amazing, and since then, they've spent a lot of time together visiting with other veterans suffering from similar issues. But what's so interesting to me about Lonnie and Gander's relationship is about a few months in, Gander actually developed a fear of heights, probably because he was watching Lonnie so closely. What's pretty great about this, though, is that he's still a fantastic service dog, because now, when they're both at a great height, Lonnie is so concerned with Gander's well-being that he forgets to be scared of the heights himself.

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