---
title: "The Emotional Support Animal Racket"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-emotional-support-animal-racket-wgprd2dcv
source_url: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-emotional-support-animal-racket
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2024-05-10T14:26:43.635Z
updated: 2024-05-10T14:26:42.628Z
tags: ["mental-health"]
reading_time: 5
upvotes: 2
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# The Emotional Support Animal Racket

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 5 min read · 2 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

The use of emotional support animals to help people with mental health problems is clinically proven, but the process of obtaining an emotional support animal letter lacks a clear evaluation rubric.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@mohnish** · 1 upvotes

> wdym my dog's emotional support animal is me

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