The most used traits of a service dog that get used in a day is alerting their owner of an increase in anxiety and giving physical contact during a panic attack. Service dogs are used 1.36 to 5.05 times a day and are trained to wake up owners during nightmares and to perform tasks in public to provide security for their owners. According to a study done by people with anxiety disorders, having contact with dogs decreased their anxiety. The results of spending 20 minutes with a dog and its handler led to students having better well being and less anxiety and with just the dog the students had an improved mood and academic performance. In the presence of a real dog compared to a dummy dog while being exposed to a traumatic film, the real dogs decreased anxiety way more than the dummy dogs. Helping with PTSD, easing anxiety, and decreasing depression are the biggest benefits of owning an Emotional Support Dog. Owners of Psychiatric Service dogs with PTSD can benefit from the dogs ability to help them regain life worth and remain in the present. Emotional support dogs can also help owners with depression by decreasing mental health problems and stress