{"id":7399,"date":"2019-03-28T08:21:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T07:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wiedergeborene.de\/en\/?p=7399"},"modified":"2019-03-28T09:27:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T08:27:19","slug":"help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiedergeborene.de\/en\/help\/","title":{"rendered":"Help against depression"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is my service dog Kalle. He is one year\nold and he is still to be trained. I do the training under the supervision of\nmy dog trainer. While my life \u201cbefore Kalle\u201d was often a struggle to get up or\neven go outside-especially at the weekends I had to become more self-organized\nand self-disciplined. And here is the secret: I wouldn\u2019t have done it just for\nmyself. I believe that sometimes it is easier to do these things for another\nbeing than for oneself. Yet when Kalle is barking at the moon, old neighbours\nor even trash cans I frankly do not know who is helping whom here J. It seems that I have even more\nwork on my hands and that the dog is \u201cslow on the uptake\u201d when \u201clessons\u201d are\nover and we are outside. But this is not so: Like me he is distracted by\nmillions of smells, noises and movements. And while he can bring things to me\nwhile we are in my flat he lets them fall down outside and completely forgets\nabout them J. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morrie Schwarz<a href=\"#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a>\nonce said \u201cAs a child and when you get old you need people to help you. But\nhere is the secret: You also need people in between.\u201d That this is more than\ntrue I realized when Kalle ran away one day: All my neighbours went in search\nfor him. We found him and got him home safely. Later that evening I understood\nthat Kalle had already \u201chelped\u201d me: Our daily walks had connected me in a\npositive way with my neighbours. His constant joy when he could \u201csniff the\nworld outside\u201d had pushed me out of my self-indulged isolation in my flat and\nthe feeling that everything outside is \u201cjust too overwhelming\u201d. Without\nrealizing it I had looked over my wall of fear and depression and let go of the\npast. And even now when I have \u201creached\u201d the week-end and sleep a lot because I\nam exhausted and overstimulated my little companion is there with me \u201cbehind\nthat wall\u201d. And here is what I wanted to share with you: Even when you feel it\nis useless and you are only giving-the animals will give it back to you. When\nKalle licks my hands comfortingly or sits behind me in the queue of the\nsupermarket to \u201cprotect\u201d me I know that all the effort has been worth it. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> Albom, Mitch, Tuesdays with Morrie,\nNew York 1997.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my service dog Kalle. He is one year old and he is still to be trained. I do the training under the supervision of my dog trainer. While my life \u201cbefore Kalle\u201d was often a struggle to get up or even go outside-especially at the weekends I had to become more self-organized and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,10,15,14,13],"class_list":["post-7399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein","tag-overcome-burnout","tag-overcome-depression","tag-service-dog-for-burnout","tag-service-dog-for-depression","tag-service-dog-for-trauma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiedergeborene.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiedergeborene.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiedergeborene.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiedergeborene.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiedergeborene.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiedergeborene.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7403,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiedergeborene.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7399\/revisions\/7403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiedergeborene.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiedergeborene.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiedergeborene.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiedergeborene.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}