Why aren't we prescribed videos of cute animals ?

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I love animals and have been since I was a kid and I sometimes come across videos of cute cats, dogs, otters and other animals and they do bring a smile to my face. I have only just wondered maybe why doctors and therapists don't suggest looking at those videos, pictures and things to help with their mental health struggles, depression and so on.

Probably because a lot of people would be offended to be prescribed 30 minutes of cute floofs per day.

Not everyone can regulate their cute videos and pictures intake...
Also just as risky to introduce someone with another addiction.

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I'm not an addict. I can quit whenever I like.

Cats are awesome.

I like them more than dogs.

Probably because there hasn't been a medical study done to prove the benefits and so it wouldn't be considered prescribe-able because there are no (medically) known benefits.

That doesn't mean they couldn't be, though. Seriously. Some researcher could measure the effects of people viewing that sort of content vs. a control group that doesn't. I'm sure some nerds already have various methods of measuring mood, depression, anxiety, calm, happy blah blah etc and things could be remeasured after X minutes of exposure to floof content.

There was a medical study done on a Book and its effect on depression/mood. It is a bit of a clinical read and has self help exercises. (Feeling Good by Dr. David Burns) They proved in the study that reading the book and doing the exercises was EQUALLY effective at treating depression as taking antidepressant medication. If a study can be conducted and measure and prove changes from reading a book and doing exercises, then they can measure all the same things from watching floof videos. Or anything else, really.. buy Medical Doctors tend not to prescribe anything that hasn't been Proven effective. So, someone has to do the work to prove its efficacy before it can possibly be prescribed.

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Of course the shrinks aren't going to suggest we look at photos or videos of cute fluffy animals. They would much rather make money by forcing pills down our throats that make our symptoms a lot worse and give us horrible side effects. They're just plain evil and have no empathy. Bunch of freaking quacks.

Speaking of quacks, here's a video with the *good* kind.

I'm not a scientologist, I just had horrible experiences with psychiatric medications, several of which aren't even used anymore because the side effects and other dangers are so bad, and having to stay in a mental ward while my anxiety was through the roof, while spending half my life being wrongly diagnosed with schizophrenia. So you'll have to forgive me if I've lost just a tiny bit of trust towards psychiatrists.

https://animalchannel.co/giant-stingray ... 25e49f62=1

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