Laurel Braitman : Depressed dogs, cats with OCD — what animal madness means for us humans

Laurel Braitman·TEDSalon NY2014  (transcript)
Depressed dogs, cats with OCD — what animal madness means for us humans
Summary
Before I didn’t know about dogs well, thus dogs stories were interesting.
There are many streets in the era and not only people but also animals are suffering from it. It appears often as depression or OCD. (obsessive-compulsive disorder)
It means that dogs and cats also have it, it’s a usual thing and we have to think that so the speaker tells us that we can anthropomorphize dogs and cats more. 1)
It’s a good thing because we must know that drugs are tested in non- human animals first. They can take it also. 2)
When people have depression, dogs or cats cure people. It’s the same for dogs and cats. For them, there are something or someone that cure them and we have to think that by anthropomorphizing them.3)

I thought for a long time that keeping dogs and cats is not good for their health because it’s not natural though it seems to be wrong. It seems to be that each other, empathizing is important.

Words in this story
depression /noun/ a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity
OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) /noun/ psychiatric disorder in which a person experiences recurrent obsessions or compulsive actions or both.
inadequacy /noun/ insufficiency, incompetence
anthropomorphize /verb/ give human qualities to a nonhuman, give human form to something which is not human