Name: 【TED】動物的精神病對人類的意義 Laurel Braitman: Depressed dogs, cats with OCD — what animal madness means for us humans
Uploaded: 2015-04-07T00:59:59.000Z
Duration: 19 min 33 s

情態副詞

handsome, charming and largely unstable male

程度副詞

He had such paralyzing separation anxiety

牠有非常嚴重的「分離焦慮症」，

Once, he jumped out of our third floor apartment.

牠有一次從3樓的家直接往下跳。

He ate fabric. He ate things, recyclables.

牠會吃布料、或是其他回收物，

He was diagnosed with a canine compulsive disorder

牠最後被診斷出「犬類強迫症」，

and that's really just the tip of the iceberg.

the person that you love has some issues.

And most of us do not take the person we're dating

or give them back to the friend that introduced us,

或是叫介紹你們的朋友把他帶走，

if a dog I loved, or just dogs generally,

牠們會不會有情緒，我的答案是「會」。

but I'm not sure that I would have told you

that they can also wind up with an anxiety disorder,

But then, I fell in love, and I realized that they can,

但我墜入愛河，而且知道原來會變這樣，

And I spent the last seven years, actually,

looking into this topic of mental illness in other animals.

如果是，對我們又有什麼意義？

And what I discovered is that I do believe

and actually looking and trying to identify mental illness in them

讓人類成為牠們更稱職的朋友，

and also can help us better understand ourselves.

So let's talk about diagnosis for a minute.

just because you ask someone that you're with

or your parent or your child how they feel

他們可能自己也不知道怎麼表達自己的感覺

that we feel that we have to talk to someone

physicians often diagnosed emotional distress

Most mental disorders in the United States

在美國大部分人罹患的精神病，

and when you think about it, fear and anxiety

are actually really extremely helpful animal emotions.

Usually we feel fear and anxiety in situations that are dangerous,

通常我們在感到危險的時候，才會有這種情緒反應。

The problem is when we begin to feel fear and anxiety in situations that don't call for it.

問題是在沒有危險的時候，我們也恐慌焦慮。

Mood disorders, too, may actually just be

the unfortunate downside of being a feeling animal,

are often manifestations of a really healthy animal thing

which is keeping yourself clean and groomed.

This tips into the territory of mental illness

compulsively over-wash your hands or paws,

or you develop a ritual that's so extreme

that you can't sit down to a bowl of food

So for humans, we have the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual,"

所以我們有一本人類的「診斷與統計手冊」，

of the currently agreed-upon mental disorders.

那其他動物呢，我們有「YouTube」。

This is just one search I did for "OCD dog"

這是我輸入「強迫症 狗」的畫面，