Pets can help with anxiety in several ways:
1. Companionship: Pets provide companionship and social support, reducing feelings of loneliness and isolation.
2. Emotional Support: Pets offer emotional support and comfort, helping to calm anxiety.
3. Distraction: Interacting with pets can distract from anxious thoughts and worries.
4. Physical Touch: Petting, stroking, or cuddling with pets can reduce stress and anxiety through physical touch.
5. Routine: Caring for pets can provide a sense of purpose and structure, helping to establish a daily routine.
6. Social Connection: Pets can help their owners meet new people and form social connections.
7. Stress Reduction: Interacting with pets can lower cortisol levels, heart rate, and blood pressure, reducing stress and anxiety.
8. Sensory Grounding: Pets can provide sensory grounding, helping individuals with anxiety to focus on the present moment.
9. Unconditional Love: Pets offer unconditional love
