And Marsha Linehan with DBT, Carl Jung's work came out of his own "issues" (check out "Memories, Dreams, Reflections", he didn't want it published till he died as he feared he would be looked on as "unscientific" or "mystical")..... many others----
I found that I enjoyed sciences much more as an adult than I did in high school.
Go for it, whatever "it" turns out to be.