I’m wondering if rats and dogs also experience despair, the agony of knowing that things will never get better, that they will keep suffering until they die. This seems to me to be at least just as bad as the physical agony.
Good point. “Behavioral despair” is often deliberately induced in rats for the purposes of testing the efficacy of antidepressants.
I’m wondering if rats and dogs also experience despair, the agony of knowing that things will never get better, that they will keep suffering until they die. This seems to me to be at least just as bad as the physical agony.
Good point. “Behavioral despair” is often deliberately induced in rats for the purposes of testing the efficacy of antidepressants.