Imagine those stressful, college test-taking days. All students are on edge; palms are sweaty, and some students are even beginning to just completely shut down. However, it is even worse for those certain attendants who are emotionally unstable. The rate of students diagnosed with an emotional disability, specifically 11% of all college attendants, have grown in the last decade and are still continuing to grow (Huss 419). It is becoming a nationwide epidemic. Emotional support animals can help these college students cope with this dilemma. These animals, by definition, provide therapy like relief to a person who is mentally handicapped (Sutton). Emotional support animals should be allowed on all college campuses because they can help medicate and potentially reduce the …show more content…
Colleges need to face the reality of the problem. Emotional support animals would be such an easy solution to such a desperate and growing crisis. In short, by allowing emotional support animals on campus, it would greatly increase the popularity of that particular college in most students’ perspectives.
On the other hand, certain “critics believe some students feign difficulties as a way of getting their pet to join them at school” (Bergen 18). While this statement is true for some cases, there are multiple and effortless fixes. One includes the incapacitated to fill out an application to potentially have their ESA join them at school. In it, the student would have to explain, in specific detail, the disability, and how their companion animal helps them face the diagnosis. Also, it would have a requirement of acquiring a certified doctor’s signature. This straightforward and uncomplicated approach would eliminate the ‘fakers’ and open up new opportunities for the ones who actually need the assistance from the emotional support