If you qualified for one then you'd have one by now. No dog will make you less anxious and won't help your other issues at all You can NOT train a service dog yourself, less so a guide dog and no shelter dog can be one. They have to come from companies the breed and train the dogs.
It takes TWO years to train one.
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