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Kai is a scent based service dog, she can tell the difference between “normal” “psychosis/mania” “anxiety/panic” “suicidal/wanting to harm self” and “depression.”
She is able to do this both in captured scents in those mood states and naturally when I’m in those states.
She is the only dog I know so far that can do this. She was trained during episodes of bipolar disorder. Often she alerted before hallucinations came and I could mitigate with meds or just give me insight into where I was at so I could take appropriate measures. She was clicker trained!
I am so proud of her, here she is practicing and then doing one natural alert based on my mood state.
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