#psychology major

[pickle-and-beans]

When your psychology of relationships class assigns you to make a meme about boundaries.

[discountscholar]

November 17th, 2024

it’s slowly approaching my favorite time of the year <3

things on the agenda today:

• preparing for tomorrow’s exam

• internship tasks

• meetings with supervisor

• journaling

[tiredapocalypse]

maybe psychology and psychiatry should start listening to mentally ill people. just an idea

[titsoutfortntduo]

im so sick of sigmund

[queer-otherkin]

I really REALLY want those fang piercings, but my mom says that I won't get a job in the field that I want if I have it (psychology)

(Genuine answers only, I know it should be more acceptable to have piercings in our society. But it's not. And yeah, I really want to be able to get a job in psychology when I'm older :<)

[beetlebuglady]

So happy that it's finally reading week. This semester has felt very demanding so I'm glad for the break. Definitely helps to change study spots every now and then :)

[sirenizeyou]

welcome!

hii! welcome to my blog! i am 18 years old and a freshman in college. i am majoring in psychology but im not sure what i want to pursue in yet.

i'm starting this blog to give me a place to write what im thinking and to keep me in order.

if you ever have any questions, feel free to ask!

[thedesertedsystem]

My favorite part about being an OSDD system and a psychology major is

1. Explaining systems to other psych majors and then telling them I'm a system and they just... Immediate jaw drop in shock and then tense up all scared to ask questions lol

2. Seeing my professors always skim over dissociation, amnesia, and dissociative disorders 🫠

3. Outing myself as a system to my class and professors with pretty much no judgement because everyone just trauma dumps in class!!

4. That one time I had to email my prof with resources and research about dissociative disorders because her presentation was SO OUTDATED and borderline fake claiming. It triggered me so badly 😭 She was very professional with me tho and nice about it and I hope she changed her presentation 👍

[butimjustagirllll]

Literally future me

[bambinafangirls]

i’m tired of doing my course readings, so instead i’ll read a shassie fanfic!

[kaaramdadon]

My degree finally came in the mail 🥹

[rosesteeth]

day 28/100 | 100 days of productivity✮⋆˙

05/06/2024 // my last final examination for the second semester is tomorrow, and i am quite nervous since there was not a lot of preparation time and any student of abnormal psych knows the hassle of learning the numerous diagnostic criteria without mixing them up.

— what i did today :

studied the diagnostic criteria for sleep wake disorders + somatic symptom and related disorders

read a paper on culture bound syndromes

revised a paper on media portrayals of disorders

read about sexual and gender related disorders

studied about methods in making therapy more multiculturally sensitive

went through the process of conducting a clinical interview

revised notes on phenomenological social psychiatry, culture & mental illness, and religion/spirituality and mental care

[chaos-in-one]

Oh my god my fellow psych majors need to pull their heads out of their asses

Being a psych major is not the same as being a professional in the psych field. You are still studying to be one, you do not have your degree yet.

Being a psych major does not mean you know as much as, let alone better than, the actual professionals.

Being a psych major does not mean you are a specialist who is an authority on any specific disorder. Hell, having a degree does not even mean that. Unless you are an actual specialist, you do not know better than the people who specialize in that disorder.

Being a psych major does not make you an authority on what people have going on in their brains. You are not a professional yet.

Being a psych major does not mean you are automatically right on anything psychology related. There is a reason you do not have a degree yet.

Psych majors cannot determine who has what disorders. You are not licensed to make a diagnosis, because you are still a student, not a professional.

You cannot know what is going on in a strangers brain just because you major in psych. Even licensed professionals cannot do that. No matter how long they studied, or have been working in psych. There is a reason the diagnostic process for most disorders takes so long. So you, as someone who does not even have a degree yet, definitely cannot make that call where professionals cannot.

And, most importantly, being a psych major does NOT give you a free pass to be an asshole to mentally ill people. In fact, the opposite, really. People like them are the exact type of person you will be treating once you get your degree. Mentally ill people like that entrust psych professionals with their wellbeing. If you cannot be decent to mentally ill people that you do not even know, you should not be treating their mental health.

[tiredapocalypse]

no, because really, is a child not making eye contact with you such a crime?? is them not noticing you're there blasphemous? because at that point, it's clear the issue is that they aren't doing what YOU want, expect and are comfortable with/used to

[dovelylittlebird]

You ever just get the urge to conduct a research project examining how a person's current fandom or hyperfixation at any given time may or may not reveal the state of their mental and emotional health

[kiindr]

all the things that you’re passionate about are cool because you’re passionate about them. talk about them as much as you’d like. they matter to you. and things that matter to you will also matter to people who care about you :)