In grappling with anxiety, depression and other issues, college students receive comfort from emotional-support animals. Those who are soothed by touch find that dogs are good for them. Photo: TNS
Sometimes Liv Tempesta feels like she doesn’t have any emotions. That comes with the territory when you’re coping with clinical depression.
The 19-year-old sophomore at Temple University (in Philadelphia, the United States) last year tried a new type of treatment: a cat. Skittles, her eight-year-old tabby and her first emotional-support animal, lived on campus with her in Johnson Hall in her freshman year, forcing her into a routine and snuggling up with her when she was affected.
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