a point about psychology that's been on my mind for a while

[hodot]

so hear me out folks, there's a tl;dr at the bottom

back in september my freshman class all went to a local college for a "career day" - you know, the whole "make a good first impression and become not a janitor" stuff. it was mostly bull but there was a certain session i went to that really got me thinking.

ive been interested in studying psychology and becoming a counseling therapist for quite some time. i went to the counseling and psychology session at the career day to hear some info about getting into the field and what it involves, and it was everything i wanted it to be. i noticed something though when i looked around the room at my friends who had joined me, i noticed that most of them were broken people who had had some kind of traumatizing experience or mental illness of some kind.

This is assuming that they all wanted to join the field of psychology, i can't go into their heads so i don't know why exactly they were there, but i think if they were there to learn about getting into the field, they have the wrong idea about why they should. if you're going into it because you want to share your experiences with patients and show sympathy, that isn't what counseling is for, it's for showing empathy and handing them a rope to pull themselves out.

here's an brown townogy i like to use. if you see a hungry boy sitting on the ground and you have a sandwich in your hand, you don't sit there on the floor with him and say "yeah i'm hungry too, i feel." that doesn't do stuff, much less if you don't even have a sandwich. you hand the boy the sandwich, you tell him how to make his own sandwich, and you let him become self sufficient.

the people without the sandwiches are the people who aren't stable themselves and if you think you can help someone out of their hole when you're in a hole yourself, you'll just both be in a deeper hole. i see the intentions clearly of these people, and i understand why they want to go into the field, but they need to realize that they need their own sandwich first.

tl;dr people who are unstable can't help unstable people until they have found their inner peace.

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[Bear_Tracks]

Well there is a popular belief that psychologists/psychiatrists/psychobrown townysts aren't the most sane bunch of people.

[General Dog]

human psychology is way too fragile. you can make/break a man in a matter of minutes. it sucks but thats the price for reason and understanding. with a brain capable of complex processes things go wrong, we dont understand what makes it go wrong but it does.

[boystowns finest]

i was unstable with anxiety issues (medicated now) and my search for ways to get rid of it brought me to psychology lmao

human psychology is way too fragile. you can make/break a man in a matter of minutes. it sucks but thats the price for reason and understanding. with a brain capable of complex processes things go wrong, we dont understand what makes it go wrong but it does.

What.

[Clownfish]

tl;dr people who are unstable can't help unstable people until they have found their inner peace.

I've been helped out of my pit of despair by my friend with the same problems who is still fairly unstable
but I see what you mean and you're not really wrong lol

[hodot]

i was unstable with anxiety issues (medicated now) and my search for ways to get rid of it brought me to psychology lmao
What.

my point was that the people in the room were still horribly broken, and that if they are going to get into psych, they need to find their own solutions first

[sir dooble]

u can always find inner peace wiv a bullet

[IkeTheGeneric]

human psychology is way too fragile. you can make/break a man in a matter of minutes

Maybe in a more roundabout way but psychology is a fairly straight-forward science. Most people are pretty mentally sound, so this is pretty false.

The method in which humans interpret their reality is anything but fragile. It's actually a very strong evolutionary trait. How our memory works is a bit flawed, but for the most part it works quite perfectly.

I suggest taking a look at this video
https://www.ted.com/talks/donald_hoffman_do_we_see_reality_as_it_is?language=en

[boystowns finest]

u can always find inner peace wiv a bullet

https://youtu.be/4PjaKZHueP8?t=1341

[ZombiLoin]

human psychology is way too fragile. you can make/break a man in a matter of minutes. it sucks but thats the price for reason and understanding. with a brain capable of complex processes things go wrong, we dont understand what makes it go wrong but it does.

spoken like somebody who doesn't have a clue about what they're talking about.

[Alkatjo]

General Dog isn't wrong to an extent, he just worded it incorrectly. While i was studying psychology my professor made a great point to us who're going into law. No amount of physical and mental buildup can prepare you for what is really out there. In other words we're all destined to break one day or another. It's human nature. Think of the brain "venting" itself.

[ZSNO]

my point was that the people in the room were still horribly broken

Sounds like you have some problems yourself there buddy

[hodot]

Sounds like you have some problems yourself there buddy

that wasn't an insult. i've spoken with these people and heard their stories, and they are definitely not stable. they have cuts on their wrists. I don't.

[AndroFox]

They can help people with their personal experience,  but only after they've figured how to sort their own problems.

[ZSNO]

that wasn't an insult. i've spoken with these people and heard their stories, and they are definitely not stable. they have cuts on their wrists. I don't.

Hmm, I guess you do need to learn more about psychology and mental disorders then.