Blain

I know I'm a bit young to be deciding yet, but if not a musician, then probably a physiotherapist or a personal trainer. Something around physical studies.

jesus

I want to join the circus and i'm pretty sure ethon and i are going to be bank robbers

DontRunMeOver

By reading the textbooks.

That's a fair enough reason for taking a strong interest in psychology, but in terms of insight it only really gives you one into manic depression and anxiety (and maybe mania and depression one their own). Plus, even if you have experience of manic-depression, your experience of the illness will be different in some ways to the experience of anybody else with the same illness. Proper treatment of mental illnesses is based more around using accumulated knowledge, theories and techniques from the backlog of psycholocial research, rather than trying to extrapolate things from your own personal experience.

I don't believe that you need to have suffered from a mental illness to be able to treat people with mental illnesses. Last time I checked, brain surgeons didn't need to have had brain surgery themselves, policemen don't need to have been arrested and forensics experts don't need to have murdered anybody to do their job properly.

That's because you were looking for it. It can be easy to find things like that if you're looking for them, even if they're not actually there. If you're not paranoid enough to actually require treatment for your paranoia, then it's stretching it a bit to actually label yourself as such.

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anticipation

c4t burgl3r

tdoc210

pfft ****ing made up diseases is more like it

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We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that.

The Dave

I know that, nah, I'm not like full on paranoid, just according to the text I had signs of it. I never got tested for it, so someone might think I actually am, but I don't think I am. Psychology is like a bunch of guess work and then throwing some pills around in my opinion.

DearJenny

Thats what they did for me. My therapist had tried to convience me that my friends suck and my moms an alcoholic....both of which are very not true. And then she sent me to a man to give me prozac....which I never even took.

Which is another reason I want to go into therapy. I'm going to listen, not sit there and convience a patient that he/she needs to dump their friends and whatnot. I honestly think psychology is bull**** but I want to go in and change it.....or at least open my own practice with my own standards.

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