Does having pets boost your mental health and cure depression?

0:05 hi romeo 0:06 i appreciate 0:08 your time at our cause 0:10 but i've also noticed that a few things 0:13 are going on with you and i think it's a 0:14 good idea to talk today 0:16 [Music] 0:18 so i noticed that you know you are 0:22 fighting through some challenges you 0:23 have some learning disability 0:25 right and some mental disability as well 0:28 you want to talk about what is going on 0:30 like what kind of disability are you 0:32 facing What is your disability 0:34 yeah um 0:35 first my disability is 0:38 is my learning disability 0:40 it's hard for me to nothing no 0:43 things 0:44 uh if you give me the book 0:46 i 0:47 understand but if you ask me to put in 0:49 like on the test or a paper it's hard 0:52 for me to do that 0:54 that's the one thing yeah 0:57 and for my mental meta issue is 1:02 having depression 1:05 for couple years now 1:07 but 1:08 the worst one was during the winter time 1:12 or the when our wet weather is cold yeah 1:17 it was it is getting bad 1:19 so 1:21 um 1:22 some days like one or two or three days 1:26 i'm at the bed the whole time i don't 1:28 want to get up 1:31 you don't want to get out of the bed 1:33 bed or 1:35 do nothing i like to stay at the bed 1:38 yeah yeah that's hard How do you motivate yourself 1:40 and then how do you motivate yourself to 1:42 come out 1:43 um 1:44 you should see me 1:46 like two years doing the coverage 1:48 nighting at the heartbreak a high peak 1:51 yeah 1:52 i stayed at the house the whole time 1:55 yeah it was bad yeah but after two years 1:59 uh 2:00 one day 2:01 at the night time 2:03 i was calling out a garbage yeah a cat 2:08 just coming to the house 2:11 uh i take care of the cat after that 2:14 my depression went away lit a lot since 2:17 i'm the cat 2:18 coming my into my life 2:21 how is it to make friends i mean is it How is it to make friends 2:23 been a challenge or 2:25 you 2:28 um this is all saying 2:30 uh when you're around you can make 2:32 friends uh from 2:34 your 2:35 early age like from five to 18 you make 2:39 friends a lot 2:40 but when you reach like 30 or up 2:44 it's hard to make your friends because 2:46 people are busy with life 2:49 either they work 2:51 or they have family or 2:54 work and family there's no time for 2:56 people outside 2:58 i lost my job 3:00 but they offered me a 3:02 job uh the same company but 3:06 different uh different occasions in 3:08 hayward but i said 3:10 that's too far for me it's time to for 3:13 me to move on 3:15 yeah yeah Does volunteering help 3:16 but i noticed that um 3:19 you are working a lot on our course 3:21 things right you are very good with 3:23 doing things does working for 3:25 volunteering for our course help you 3:28 yes um it helped me a lot i want is i 3:31 reach out to peep other people 3:34 by zoom call them or go to the store 3:38 or the in the office to get some 3:40 information 3:41 yeah for our non-profit so it keeps Does it give you purpose 3:48 oh good it keeps you busy does it give 3:50 you purpose also to get up and go 3:52 and talk to people attend the meetings 3:55 right it gives you a purpose to 3:56 do things correct 3:58 yes 3:59 but um some days i cannot because due to 4:03 family 4:03 [Music] 4:06 matters like i bring my sister to her 4:08 work 4:09 yeah i pick her up 4:12 anytime so it's hard for me to go 4:13 outside that much and i thought i'm 4:16 taking care of my mom 4:17 yeah she's uh she's uh 4:21 69 and she just had a surgery 4:24 for her gus her cancer 4:27 we just found out she had a cancer in 4:29 the stomach oh no oh no yeah now good 4:32 thing is the other doctor says is stage 4:35 one 4:37 yeah he said good thing is we got it 4:39 stage one and we can remove early yeah 4:42 then 4:44 later 4:47 [Music] 4:54 yeah you