What's the deal with ESA?

Emotional Support Animals... Okay, I suppose there are a select few people who are so emotionally in need of support that they need their pet (animal) with them everywhere; but seriously, how did this become such a big thing?

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Mamapolo2016 · F

Bottom line. Lots of things are causing it...addicted babies born to addicted mothers. Stress with little family support. The growing unkindness of the world in general. The insistence that the mental health system can help (and they can’t much). And one of my pet peeves, the notion that you can’t help yourself get better, which you often can.

Part of it IS marketing. But imho, more of it is lost lonely people who just don’t fit...and try mightily to find something, anything, to hang on to. And i’ve Seen it work, dozens of times. Maybe because your dog is never too busy to take your call.

Mamapolo2016 · F

I had a friend who couldn’t get through a Walmart without a serious panic attack. Yet she insisted on trying, and then I would have to go rescue her. I am convinced she would have benefited greatly from a support dog. So would I have.