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Oliver was an extremely dashing, handsome, charming and larg。ely unstable male that I completely lost my heart to.
奧利弗是個勁頭十足，帥氣、迷人而且非常不穩定的男性,我完全傾心于他。
He was a Bernese mountain dog,and my ex-husband and I adopted him,and about six months in,we realized that he was a mess.
他是伯爾尼茲山地犬，我的前夫和我收養了他，差不多六個月之后，我們發現他一團糟。
He had such paralyzing separation anxiety that we couldn't leave him alone.
他患有麻痹性分離焦躁癥我們根本不能留他獨處。。
Once, he jumped out of our third floor apartment.
有一次，他直接從我們公寓的三樓跳出去。
He ate fabric. He ate things, recyclables.
他吃布料，也吃回收物。
He hunted flies that didn't exist.
他捕捉不存在的蒼蠅。
He suffered from hallucinations.
他深受幻覺困擾。
He was diagnosed with a canine compulsive disorder and that's really just the tip of the iceberg.
他被診斷過為犬類強迫性障礙而這些還只是冰山一角而已。
But like with humans,sometimes it's six months in before you realize that the person that you love has some issues.
但是跟人類一樣，有時候六個月之后你才發現你愛的那個人有一些毛病
And most of us do not take the person we're dating back to the bar where we met them or give them back to the friend that introduced us,or sign them back up on Match.com.
但大部分人不會把約會對象丟回我們剛認識的那個酒吧或者還給那位介紹我們認識的朋友又或者把他們重新注冊回相親網上。
We love them anyway, and we stick to it, and that is what I did with my dog.
不管怎樣我們都愛他，而且堅持愛下去。我也這樣對我的狗狗。
And I was a I'd studied biology.
我學過生物學。
I have a Ph.D. in history of science from MIT,and had you asked me 10 years ago if a dog I loved, or just dogs generally,had emotions, I would have said yes,
我是MIT的科學史博士。如果十年前你問我如果我愛的狗狗，或者狗這個群體有沒有情緒，我會告訴你有。
but I'm not sure that I would have told you that they can also wind up with an anxiety disorder,a Prozac prescription and a therapist.
但我不確定是否會告訴你。他們也會患焦慮癥、吃百憂解（一種治療精神抑郁的藥物）、看治療師。
But then, I fell in love, and I realized that they can,and actually trying to help my own dog overcome his panic and his anxiety,it just changed my life.
但我墜入了愛河，然后發現他們有種種問題，而幫助我自己的狗狗克服他的恐慌和焦慮，也改變了我的生活。
It cracked open my world.
打開了我的世界。
And I spent the last seven years, actually,looking into this topic of mental illness in other animals.
我在過去的七年探究了其他動物的精神疾病。
Can they be mentally ill like people,and if so, what does it mean about us?
他們會像人一樣患精神疾病嗎？如果會，這對我們意味著什么？
And what I discovered is that I do believe they can suffer from mental illness,and actually looking and trying to identify mental illness in them often helps us be better friends to them and also can help us better understand ourselves.
然后我發現我相信他們會受精神疾病折磨，而且觀看并試著辨認他們的精神疾病有助于我們成為更好的朋友也能更好地了解自己。
So let's talk about diagnosis for a minute.
讓我們稍微聊聊診斷過程吧。
Many of us think that we can't know what another animal is thinking,and that is true,
很多人認為我們不可能知道另一個動物在想什么，的確如此，
but any of you in relationships a at least this is my case a just because you ask someone that you're with or your parent or your child how they feel doesn't mean that they can tell you.
但你們任何一個談過戀愛的至少就我而言。僅僅問了在一起的伴侶、父母和孩子，他們感覺如何不代表他們能告訴你。
They may not have words to explain what it is that they're feeling, and they may not know.
也許他們不會用語言解釋自己的感覺亦或他們真的不清楚。
It's actually a pretty recent phenomenon that we feel that we have to talk to someone to understand their emotional distress.
事實上這是最近的一個現象。我們以為，想了解對方的情緒困擾就必須跟他們聊聊。
Before the early 20th century, physicians often diagnosed emotional distress in their patients just by observation.
在二十世紀早期之前，醫師們經常僅僅靠觀察就診斷他們的病人。
