Monday, July 02, 2007

psychology makes you go crazy!!!!

do u know whats the first response from a layman who heard you are studying psychology?
"oh, i better be scared, cos you can read my mind right??"
come on... how uneducated does someone have to be to think that in this day and age, someone can read your mind? through the five years that i have been studying the subject, i have heard that response or various versions of it innumerable times. but this is not what the post is about....

there is something that i have noticed! more than any other stream of students, its the psychology students who seem to be most unstable, filled with complexes and most unable to resolve personal issues in satisfactory manner.

there are two comments i have to make about this phenomenon...
  1. that psychology students probably come to realize that such issues exist in them more than other students do... (and therefore it is out in the open for everyone to see) OR
2. it is people who have issues who take up psychology in the first place.....

whatever the reason may be, it is unsettling to know that people who are training themselves to solve your issues are the very ones who have the most issues themselves.

in my current class where i am doing my masters in psychology, from my personal assessment there are people with major inferiority complexes, superiority complexes, adjustment issues, inability to deal with others' success, hyper competitiveness, hypersensitivity, eccentric behaviour, inability to deal appropriately with emotions, low self esteem and many many more problems that as psychologists, we learn to help people with.... i include myself in the list of people who one or more of the above mentioned issues. but whatever said and done, its psychology majors who seem to have more of these issues. now, my findings are not based on empirical research but purely on observation. as a sequel to this, i also go so far as to say that as people major in more specialized fields of psychology, the more these issues manifest themselves..

like every rule, or every observation, in this case, there are exceptions to every rule... i have also met a few (very very scanty number) of people who don't show any outward symptoms of psychological issues. and i sincerely hope that as times moves on, the exceptions will be more than those who follow the norm!!!!!! for the sake of the society as least!

7 comments:

3inone said...

Oi romantic psyckle,
me never did no psych course and as u can see there are three of me:)

Macabreday said...

Did you know that marriage counselors have a harder time dealing with their marriage? Im wondering why....!! Damn.....scares the hell out of me.

sinusoidally said...

I 100% completelty agree with your observations of people who take up psychology as a field of study. Even the ones who are out there practicing, there is definitley something odd about them. From an opposite perspective, my pet peeve of people who study psychology is that they are the first ones to psycho analyze others at a party or a social event. So completely unsolicited. And so completely irritating!

Pointblank said...

hey..

i jus chanced upon ur blog.. u write really well.. keep up the good work...

Surya said...

wowoww.. i really thought i shud be away from this psyco students cos they read minds...

thx for ur post....

after all we all are humans...

Macabreday said...

you have been TAGGED

Global Volunteers Ecuador Project 11.24.07 said...

Im a psych major too. and ur right!
but guess what? Everyone has issues. You hang around someone enough and u'll find it.

This is what makes the human species beautiful and varied.

and who better to help u on an issue than someone who has lived with the issue and has pledged their career to solve it?