For one thing, depressives tend to isolate, thereby precluding therapeutic interventions. On the other hand, those with high anxiety have trouble maintaining therapeutic gains, and for this reason, may downplay the benefits of therapy. So while traditional talk therapy may not always be the easiest way to treat these disorders, sometimes spending time with a horse can be just the trick.
Horses tend to bring people out of their shell, and not only in a environmental way. When interacting with a horse, a person who is depressed will register a different physiological response from what has been normal. And this very fact is important given that one of the hallmark features of major depression
is a flatlined physiological system.
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