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Old Aug 11, 2019, 01:00 PM
kiwi215 kiwi215 is offline
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Originally Posted by PurpleMirrors3 View Post
Kiwi - Does the field of psychotherapy interest you beyond just your desire to help?
Absolutely. It is all so incredibly fascinating to me. I think about it all the time and do my own research - not just on the subject of harm or on the specific disorders that I have been diagnosed with, but so many different areas of the field. I check out informational books from the library, read articles online, and would go to my psychology professors’ office hours when I was still an undergrad not because I was having difficulty understanding the material of the class, but because I was just genuinely interested in chatting about various psychology topics. I sit and ponder about concepts and theories that I have learned about, so much so that sometimes I have even stumped my professors and had them tell me that they don’t know the answer to a question or that they hadn’t considered it before. I was never super big into school and couldn’t care less about quadratic equations or the history of Europe. I had little motivation to learn those subjects, but I was always eager to study psychology ever since I took AP Psych in high school (I did by far the best on this AP exam than I ever did on any of the others I took). It’s really the subject that interests me the most (and not just by a narrow margin, but by a huge margin), and that’s actually part of what is frustrating to me... if I decided not to go to grad school for this due to ethical concerns, I can’t see myself going into any other field. I would feel so lost because no other field comes close to psychology for me in terms of interest. Truly it is almost an obsession for me. I’ve been diagnosed with ADHD and have some learning difficulties, but once I switched my major to psychology in college, my GPA went up and I ended up graduating Magna Cum Laude. I got A’s in all but one my psychology courses (a high B in the one). I ENJOYED school when I was studying psychology, which was a new experience for me. So yes, I truly am interested in and fascinated by the study of psychology.
Thanks for this!
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