Erick Scott, a veteran who served in Iraq, knows first-hand what it’s like to suffer from PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder – a mental health condition triggered by experiencing or seeing a terrifying event).
PTSD is also sometimes known as shell shock or combat stress, occurs after experiencing severe trauma or a life-threatening event.
For all too many veterans, it's hard to readjust to life out of the military or getting haunted by unpleasant memories and experiences. Erick was no exception.
To help him combat his anxiety, he was paired with a special service dog, Gumbo. Gumbo's main role was to notify him when he started showing symptoms of PTSD.
Watch the video on the next page to see Gumbo's amazing reaction when Scott gets agitated on camera during an interview. This is incredibly touching to see.
Mayra Villafranca
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Mayra Olvera
Courtney Rodden
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I love this
Karen Paskins
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Salute American Heros!
Kayla Mesecke
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Cody Mesecke
Kelly Head Sloan
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Our sick society wants you to have more empathy for a man who wants to use the little girl’s room.
Kristina Denton
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Jennifer 🙂
Jason Brown
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I was scrolling past this and was like ….
Is that Chris Gibson? Haha….
Cheers Gibby….much love.
Charlotte Priest
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Praise the Lord this veteran has been helped
Dawn Taylor
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Alison Taylor Michelle Ornsby
Mike Quade
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That’s great God bless
Heather Pofahl
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Service dogs❤️
Randy Carr
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Rachel Morgan Shaun Kerr
Karen Durham Bobbins
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Bless his heart
Clare Kellett
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Is that a prong collar ??
Chris Gibson
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Does look like me a bit
Paul Blackwood
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Me too, unfollow .
Suzan Marquis
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That is amazing. I am so thankful that they can do this with these animals for the soldiers. I hope they can get more dogs for them. God knows there are more veterans out there that can use them.
Krisi Browne
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God bless you always Eric….
Chelsea Elkins
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It’s not “drugging them” it is helping them.
Kris Wikstrom
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and this is why there are service animals
Jenn Morad
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Teary eyed, dogs are just so awesome. The best.
Glenn Alderson
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God bless him and he’s dawg this is awesome
Andrew Blake
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Power of dogs/animals
Leah Rose Lee Iimmel
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John Athanasiadis
Carla Shradar
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Amazing
Jamie Deitrick
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Got to keep going to the next page. Near the bottom of 1 of them you will see where to play it. Is pretty good
Jacob Cornell
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I’m sure he does have panic attacks, but that didn’t seem anything like a panic attack on this footage. Either way, dogs are great and help GREATLY with panic anxiety.
Lorri Childers
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Heart breaking
Gay Ann Adams Little
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Thx to are veterans and people who train the animals to help them
Barbara E. Hill
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Finally was able to see it play–thanks JLD
Robert Barker
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My chihuahua did the same for me
Maureen Guichard
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K9 for Warriors is a wonderful charity that I am proud to donate to.
Linda Sindeband
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Animals are terrific (however I don’t like the collar he’s using)
Deb Dennison
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No, it is not.
Jane Moss Berra
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Shalea Berra
Jackie Taylor
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April Petz.. Mike Petz
Kevin Witmyer
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I can so relate to him. Not a veteran, did my time in public safety for 25 years. 9 years in fighting the demons every day. My dogs are my right hand at my left knee. Changed my life, and keep me almost functional.
Bless them all!!!
Joe Schmitt
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Every service man and woman who needs one of these amazing animals should be provided with one. If they need help caring for them that’s a Gov’t subsidy I can get behind.
Thank you to our amazing service men and women who have given so much to allow us our freedom!
Giulia P. Fedrizzi
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Marcelo Norton
Jeffery Luke
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This is a great thing for our veterans and Gumbo is so smart.
Chris Keiper
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Kris Anderson Leon. I thought this would resonate with you.
Heather Pofahl
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Yes they don’t change your issue but usually alert you and also prevent it from a full blown episode, just petting the dog can change the brain path
Emily Read
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This is an honest question , how do they prevent or help the person coop with panic attacks , I just don’t see how they help stop them?
Michelle Brooks
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Caren Braider here’s an example
Jacob Cornell
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Heather Pofahl no doubt. I’m sure the dogs are helpful. We’ve got three dachshunds at home and I’ve had gnarly panic attacks throughout the past eight years. I’m just merely commenting on how the caption for this video is misleading to what is actually contained in the video… If it was a panic attack in the video, it was very mild. Dude seemed fine. But again, I’m sure he has regular panic attacks apart from the video.
Jenni Murray
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Brendan Pugh
Aubrey Weyman Weathersby
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Google Service Dogs and Panic Attacks. 🙂
Chris Van Gelderen
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Awesome dog quick reaction beautiful
Liz Tavares
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Juan Antonio Manzur has this been considered in the work you are doing
Rachael Sinopoli
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This is good for everyone who suffers from panic attacks. Emily Read the dog senses stress and he intervenes to curb the panic from escalating.