My new little girl has curred my anxiety and panic attacks!!!!!!!!!!!!! :))

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I've never thought of that actually lol. But I don't know if what I have would be considered a disability to most. I feel like people who truly need a dog companion to help them out in everyday life probably have it a lot harder than i do. but im still going to look into that lol, cuz that wold be really cool.

If your panic attacks and anxiety prevent you from living a "normal" life (but normal is all relevant, of course), and your dog helps to prevent that feeling of anxiety and panic attack, then absolutely it would qualify as a disability. There are service dogs working right now with people with panic and anxiety attacks.

http://www.iaadp.org/psd_tasks.html - particularly III. COPING WITH EMOTIONAL OVERLOAD

http://www.standardpoodlesusa.com/se...d-bipolar.html

http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/....aspx?id=79757

http://www.psychdog.org/

http://www.psychdog.org/training.html

There are many more links you can find if you Google "Service Dog for Panic Attacks".

I volunteer with Canine Assistants in Alpharetta that trains service dogs for the physically disabled. We don't do psychiatric service dogs though.