Just wrote this on my fb:

People tell me I should go into psychology in college, or something similar. All the time.
Let me tell you why, out of all the majors I’ve been through why I haven’t, and why I WON’T ever.

My intention isn’t to build a career directly in the mental health field. There’s nothing for me there. I don’t want to build a career directly into a field that I will, I feel like, steer me into a direction that is laden with old systemic theories and functions. This is mostly coming from a consumer point-of-view, because I have been in the mental health system for two decades and counting. The channels that someone has to go through to get where they should be in recovery is usually watered down with old systemic functions. Which makes things a lot harder and a lot longer for the person to get where they need to be in recovery. Of course, you can do other things with a psychology degree, but the inherent amount of the field of reach and leverage you will be able to do is relatively small, because of the functions that have been in place for decades. The availability of resources that are both demographically available and recovery-oriented are small. The TRUE recovery-oriented resources. Which is a whole other conversation.

My end goal is to reach those not only that are just entering the system for help, or have been there for awhile with no avail in succinct help, but to reach those that are young, old, in-between, minorities, lgbtq+, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, muslim, etc EVERYBODY that ISN’T getting the resources that they need to reach and get their demographic, economic, social, etc need met, and quickly. And I’m choosing to do that in a way that is unconventional.