The human mind has always fascinated me. When I was younger I thought I'd become a psychologist or a therapist, just because I wanted to delve into the world of people's mind and really try to understand why people thought the way they did. Fast forward to the present day, I am still fascinated by the human mind. I'm just not majoring in Psychology. As you may know I'm studying cinema and advertising. What I want to do is explore the human mind with these areas. Right now I'm taking a psychology class, which has peaked my interest once more.
I, and probably everyone else in the world, was always interested in disorders: Depression, OCD, Schizophrenia, and personality disorders to name a few. I noticed that a lot more questions arose once we started with the disorders. "Why does this disorder cause this?" "How do we know someone with this disorder isn't actually aware of their actions?" With that, in this psychology class we are exploring the basics of psychology in relation to society. What I have determined from my studies is that society is very quick to label a disorder on any individual that may or may not need it and that society is not so quick to acknowledge that there are a number of people with actual disorders who do not even try to receive help because in some sense it is looked down upon.
I don't want to say that my mind is "more advanced", but I have never understood why people would even have these this disorders. Actually, I never understood what in their mind triggered them to think a certain way. I personally dealt with my own issues. For the longest time in elementary school I contemplated suicide. Why so young? I had decided that being a kid in everyone's eyes was not worth it and that I would never get passed it. I probably just had child angst. But from things like that, I learned that its all a mentality and perspective. I learned early on that life goes on. Now I constantly have to purge my thoughts away from negative ones. I am constantly plagued with thoughts that I'm not good enough, which I somewhat attribute it to my parents, peers, and environment of my K-12 experience.
The mind is a very powerful thing.
Cheers,
Claire
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