The type of psychologist I need to become is one that works with chronically ill adults and children seeking a better way of life. I wasn’t allowed to escape my family, since I was kept deeply trapped living with them until they moved to Spain. This is a Latinx thing because we stay at home with our parents until we get married. Since I’m not married yet, I’m stuck. But anyway, marriage isn’t necessary for me right now. So I also want to become a college counselor, since I know enough about course catalogues to advise people quite nicely, having sat at this computer reading Foothill College and De Anza a lot for my own enrichment, since I have multiple interests I have to narrow down.
Personally, I define psychology as gaining an understanding of the mind and behavior through talk therapy where the therapist helps you or gives you insight into your own behavior. There are many aspects of the field, with what is known as the original psychodynamic theory first touched on by Dr. Sigmund Freud. (1856-1939). After Freud there came along Jung (1964), Adler (1927), and Erikson (1950). Psychology could be defined as the science of how to repair the psych, or the soul if you will, because there can be any number of situations that destroys the fabric of personality itself.
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McLeod, S. A. (2019). What is psychology? Retrieved from https://www.simplypsychology.org/whatispsychology.html
Talking to someone can bring great relief to a person suffering from mental illness. Stress can cause many a mental health symptom. Talk therapy or psychotherapy as my Introduction to Psychology textbook points out, is all about a therapist addressing the problems of one person who needs help but can’t feel right about asking anybody else. Therapists generally know about mental health issues. They are able to decipher the differences between various mental health disorders. To get into therapy is not a bad thing, but it is a great way of managing mental health. Therapy isn’t so bad, because they know how to unteach or deprogram your emotions, leaving you better able to sort out lies from truth.
I’m doing immense healing work on myself right now, using psychic self-help books. I’ve pretty much trained myself over the years with mentors who taught me better psychic boundaries. I still need loads more of therapy, because I want to not be prisoner of my mental health anymore. My family doesn’t get why I want therapy, or wanted therapy in my childhood; shall we say I wound up getting therapy from a nun in Catholic elementary school. I have been in therapy to deal with unacknowledged trauma deep inside my head, which my family doesn’t deal with. Yes, mom’s denial complex is that deep. I’m fed up with her denial complex. It is vicious and I cannot deal with it, so I choose not to. Yes, more therapy for me is necessary due to my CTPSD.
I want to become a psychiatrist in order to help people get the treatment they need, whether the United States turns into a free health care state or not. The thing is–I didn’t give myself the opportunity to get treatment until I was 28. This is because I went through a dumb 18 year old stage, even though I was of age and therefore allowed by the state to seek proper medical care which my family talked me out of at that age, since they would rather sabotage me through getting me to drink. Someone with autoimmune thrombocytopenia should not be drinking, period. Alcohol suppresses the immune system. Alcohol is a bad thing to do to yourself in general but it is pretty available on this planet. I’m sorry to everybody who had to watch me drink in those days, yes– it got disturbing. I want to get a drug and alcohol rehabilitation certificate.
A narcissist has an entitlement complex born out of their difficult to deal with arrogance. Why I want to study psychiatry to help these people is beyond me. Narcissists feel entitled to special treatment, like having people be polite to them even if they are being wonderfully rude, is an example of such behavior. Narcissists think they have intense talent when they really don’t, whether this involves selling something, or other career choices. Narcissists like going to high-end stores to buy expensive clothing if they feel up to it. Narcissists feel like they have to win all the time, so it’s best to let them win although remember, you are not dealing with a reasonable person.
Narcissists are actually those who feel inferior to others, so they act superior or entitled to make themselves feel better. Grandiose narcissists feel they are better than you, and deserve special treatment. I’ve been in therapy with one, I know. Narcissistic people lack empathy in close relationships, I’m just relieved I do not have narcissistic traits at all, because I’m pretty much someone who does not walk around thinking I’m special unlike certain other people I know. Entitlement issues come up when a person fears being inadequate. This is why they hide their inadequacy by getting high and mighty haughty.
While some people can admit to antisocial tendencies, others cannot. Narcissists have intense exploitive tendencies towards other people. Some narcs explode when people cave to their wishes. Some people I’ve dealt with are unaware of their sense of entitlement, which I do not have, messing with their lives. They don’t know as to how their words are impactful on other people. To have schizoaffective and narcissism, well, let’s just say I want to help people like that and leave it there.
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A narcissist will make you feel like you did something wrong when you didn’t. They make everything your fault. Gaslighting is a term gathered from a 1950s movie, Gaslight, where someone rewrites history to play with your mind. This is something I have been through often. I’m not that desperate for family attention. I’d much rather avoid them. They pretty much do not necessarily pay attention to me anyway, so I can just coast along without them realizing the many projects I’m working on counts as work. The best way to avoid a blame game scenario is to exit, with limited contact. This is what I’m trying to do.
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