r/ServiceDog_CircleJerk

Hi, I'm 15F and have been considering a psychiatric service for DPT, orbit, tactile stimulation, and behavior interruption (I looked it up so I could remember what they were called). I have (at the current moment undiagnosed) anxiety, mainly in the form of social anxiety. I'm in online school, but in a year I will be going into running start. I have daily church classes and tend to have anxiety attacks there... at one point, my parents started waking up in an attack... or overstimulation... causing me to get limited sleep at that point... my parents are divorced, and I go back and forth between their houses every other week, which would make having a service dog... hard for it. I've found I'm always at around a 3 of anxiety and have gotten used to the slight stomach aches... my feet or knees never stopping moving (from the fight-or-flight response, I believe).

I own a few Comfort plushies I bring places because I've found the texture and sensation of petting fur has helped, but it definitely doesn't fix it.

This is me asking anyone willing to ask questions or willing to look into their experiences to help me know if I should look into getting one or not. I don't want to tell people, "I'm looking into a service dog" or "I was wondering if a service dog could help me in the future," if it's really not something that would be a good idea to look into. (I'm saying in the future because if my parents somehow agreed... I'd be paying for it, and I'm not in the position of a job until half a year, so this would most likely happen when I'm 17-18.)

I tried to be very careful with my wording, because people already don't deny access to this community, and I don't want to say things that would effect it in a worse way.. which is why i'm asking people in the comunity.

i’ve seen SD ‘advertised’ (idk what the right word is) for ADHD. I myself have severe ADHD but i do NOT think i need a service dog to help me manage it due to medications. What exactly would a service dog do for someone with ADHD. I’m just genuinely curious and i hope this is the right place to ask something like that.

Im a autistic young adult with anxiety and i want a service dog because I hate running my errands alone and sometimes I get anxious bussing places and being outside because there's no one to accompany me but I was thinking of getting a service dog im not sure if I meet the requirements or to where to start.

I’ve had my GSD Czech working line for about 3.5 years. He was trained out on property, and I too lived out in the woods. For the last year I’ve lived in the city; he’s highly socialized. Where I go he goes. Just this past month I’ve noticed a change in behavior that I know I’ve caused but I don’t know how to fix.

- it started when a larger man was stretching a way that to an animal looked quite aggressive. ( imagine arms spread out as wide as possible and then hunched on his knees like he’s going to lunge)
He began growing and let out a yip.
-I figured it was just a bizarre animal instinct

-Just the past month he has started letting out yip or barks. At someone openings door into my room that I’m in.
-then again when someone when someone clearly walked up wanting to touch him.
Just yesterday he did it to someone in the gym who knows him and I both very well… but they weren’t trying to let him, they just got close to both of us to start conversation. I think he wasn’t paying attention and it spooked him…but still it’s becoming a pattern.

-I mentioned the city specifically because when waking down town and people in drugs approach us he doesn’t like it and I also stiffen up… in-Fact I have encouraged a bark when the person felt dangerous Normal people have never been a problem, public spaces are still not a problem.
-but the occasional yip he’s learned is effective to keep people away and I’m trying to catch it before it gains anymore traction.