Emotional Support Animals: Uncovering the Mental Health Connection - Just Breathe:Episode 79

24 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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This content was created by Heather Hester. This content was uploaded by Heather Hester. This is a YouTube video titled "Emotional Support Animals: Uncovering the Mental Health Connection - Just Breathe:Episode 79" (metadata timestamped 2023-07-24). The excerpt is a short, multi-speaker discussion (labeled SPEAKER A/B/C) about mental health support for young people — recommending resources (mentions Plaza Patrick), reframing stigma by suggesting anxiety and depression can provide strengths like increased empathy, and emphasizing ongoing community connection and emotional support.

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So anybody with mental health disorders, again, but our focus is on young people, to get an emotional— help them get an emotional support in. If the person has a mental health disorder, anxiety, depression, anything like that, Plaza Patrick really is a place that they should go to look for maybe some help and support.
Joy and the comfort, and it is extraordinary.
We want to be all along the way with people throughout their journey. Instead of just reducing the stigma, to start to reframe it in realizing that every challenge is an opportunity. Our anxiety can be my superpower. Depression can also be my superpower because it can increase my empathy. And so, and being different, and again, it's not an accident.
But we are these beautiful, complex beings, and it's not necessary to cling to that, like, one identity factor, just one thing.
But at other times, we can realize that there is a— for each one of these aspects of who I am, there's a community where I can find connection and strength.