A Tempe woman recorded a video of her dog interrupting her violent Asperger's meltdown and posted it online. Arizona resident Danielle Jacobs, 24, was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome in 2013. She trained her 4-year-old Rottweiler Samson to stop her from self-harming, and he's subsequently passed his CGC, CGCA, and PAT. Jacobs posted the video to raise awareness about her disorder.
"This is what having aspergers is like," Jacobs writes on YouTube. "This is what's considered a meltdown...I trained him to alert to depressive episodes and self harm not both but he alerted." Elsewhere she recounts an analogy, "people with Asperger's or autism are like a computer. There's too much input not enough output – [you] lose power and crash."
Asperger's is an autism spectrum disorder according to the DSM-5. Sanson was adopted from the HALO animal rescue in Phoenix.
Danielle Jacobs was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome in 2013
She sometimes suffers anxiety and panic attacks like this one
Jacob's dog Samson calmed her down during a violent meltdown that she caught on camera
Here's the full video:
She got Samson from the HALO animal rescue in Phoenix and began training him immediately
Samson has passed his CGC (Canine Good Citizen) and CGCA (Canine Community) tests and PAT (Public Access Test)
