When I was 14-years-old I suffered through mild depression and self-harm. I never spoke of it, but once my mother found out she forced me to go see a therapist. Not opening up, I lied to the therapist about my feelings, and didn't even make eye contact. But the doctor just passed me as mentally healthy based on the fact that I'm a smart kid 'cause I don't do drugs. Looking back at this experience I wish it had been a better one, it would’ve helped if I had someone that cared enough to notice I was obviously lying about my emotions. Me being an individual that has gone through struggle with their feelings. I want to be that person that actually cares and would be able to notice someone who obviously isn't opening up. Through high school I've been immensely fascinated with the human body, and most particularity the function of your brain. I feel during the time of depression my adolescent mind's growth was in tie with my actions, in result of my feelings. Neuropsychology integrates psychological behavior and the brain's functioning processes. It is essential when understanding people's individual behavior that it's made important to know how the brain actually works as your central organ. I just don't see how you could not have one without the other. According to http://neuropsychologistsalary.net/ the starting salary for a neuropsychologist in our local area is $71,681, median being $87,041, and the maximum pay $102,402. Texas ranks the 5th state with the most employed neuropsychologists. Growth in this field is 10% every year, it is expected that by 2018 there will be nearly 7,000 new job positions to fill nationwide. It is recommended to earn your PDH or PsyD with an emphasis on neuropsychology in order to land a job in this spe... ... middle of paper ... ... career five years from now. Five years from now I will be working on obtaining my PsyD and possibly doing an internship. As a neuropsychologist I could be working in several settings ranging from clinical, hospital, educational, therapeutic, research. Once I graduate and become licensed a typical day can include treating patients, teaching, evaluating research, gathering analysis and diagnostics. I feel being a neuropsychologist will be very rewarding helping people with their behaviors in link to their brain function. I find the subject of the field mentally stimulating and insightful. I look forward to pushing through life to obtain my goals and dreams of stability for my family. I've always worked hard to earn what I got, and I have the ultimate motivation. I carry the knowledge I learn in college into everyday, hoping it to prepare me for the real world one day.
...self working in a healthcare facility (hopefully a doctor’s office). In five years I plan to start working on my Bachelor of Science in Health Science Degree. In five years I would’ve gotten the experience and knowledge I need to move forward in the facility.
In the confinements of my mind, I deny my feelings. It’s a coping strategy that I mistakenly think is healthy and is the right thing to do. At the age of 22 I’m starting to feel the effects of abandoning my emotions. I’m scared to express how I am feeling without others judging me. I find myself wondering exactly when I outgrew emotional bravery. Maybe it got lost somewhere in junior high amidst social anxieties and trying to fit in. I’ve adjusted my expectations, avoiding the hard, the difference, and the vulnerable. I’ve learned tricks that closes the gap between reality and expectations just to make it a little easier. Who needs to express their emotions in a healthy manner? Those who are surrounded by me will get what I’m trying to say,
However, the fact that neuroscience needs psychology is more difficult to establish. In this modern era of scientific advancements where much more is understood about the physiology of the brain, it is easy to think that neuroscience is all that matters when it comes to understanding the human mind. However, without psychology there is no application for neuroscience findings. One way to understand the relationship between psychology and neuroscience is to compare the brain to a computer and the mind to software, it would not make sense to mechanically take apart the hard drive of a computer to learn how to operate a computer program like Microsoft Office (Munger 2007). There are many complicated aspects of human behavior that psychology can study and isolate that neuroscience alone would miss. Neuroscientists must understand human behavior in order to make inferences about the brain, and psychology is the best source of knowledge of human behavior. Neuroscience may explain the physiological processes giving rise to psychological focusses like personality or development, but it alone cannot solve behavioral problems or treat patients with psychiatric
According Dictionary.com, neuropsychology refers to the branch of psychology that deals with the relationship between the nervous system, especially the brain, and cerebral or mental functions such as language, memory, and perception.
But you can’t be your own little therapist. After I was broken up with, I spent a day or two crying on and off. Then, I took myself on a ‘self-pity date’ (my own descriptors), and was tired of being sad. That didn’t stop the sadness, or the longing I still feel, but it did annoy me. And my little therapist directed me into a Hallmark store where I purchased a Moleskine notebook in which to record my sadness. In all reality, I am not a terribly scarred sixteen year-old. I have traumas, idiosyncrasies, and a lot of thoughts. Sometimes, I even think I think too much (and I probably do). But, all in all, I know a lot about myself as a person, what makes me tick and what can calm me down. I just need to learn to stop analyzing myself so much, and shut up my little therapist every once in a while. She never went to school for it, anyway, so what does she
I would like to have a career in Psychology because most things about it interest me. I am not sure exactly which field of it I would like to major in but I have an Idea. There is about 170,000 psychologist jobs in the united states, so It sounds like its a reasonable field to find a job I am happy with. I realized that I wanted to have a career in psychology when I first started my psychology class in high school. Everything we were doing just interested me, it made me want to pay attention to what we were doing and really try to learn the materials. College will take me around seven to ten years to complete, I am going to major in Psychology with a minor or double major in Criminal Justice.
Becoming a researcher was not something I ever dreamed of doing until a friend pointed out that it was exactly what I wanted to. I immediately began looking for an opportunity to study Neuroscience, and it just so happened that at the school that I had always dreamed of going to, has the only undergraduate Neuroscience program in the state. It all just clicked after that. I began to do a little reading and studying on my own, in order to learn more about what I was interested in. As time went on, I realized how much I truly would want to make a career out of becoming a Neuroscience researcher. While I know I may never make a great medical discovery, there is also the small chance that I win a Nobel Peace Prize, and that is what will keep me going.
When I was younger, I always imagined having a job helping others in the medical profession. My favorite quote is by Ralph Waldo Emerson, which states," The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." This is perfect to me because I hope to live my life this way. I would always think about what my future would look like, because I always try to plan ahead. High school was the time in my life when I started to process what I really wanted to do as my future career. Many life experiences that I faced helped me make the decision on wanting to become a Physician Assistant.
Neurologists specialize with certain parts of the body, like the Central Nervous System, which includes the brain and the spinal cord, and the Peripheral Nervous System, which includes all other sensory receptors and neural elements in the body. The main difference between neurologists and my career choice of being an epileptologist is that neurologists help treat those who suffer with epilepsy, like myself. Many people may ask things like, “Well what’s the difference between the two?” The truth is, all epileptologists are neurologists, but not all neurologists are epileptologists. Again, many people may ask what the difference may between the fields. The difference between these 2 professions is that epileptologists have undergone more education in the field of epilepsy than many other basic neurologists and are more suited to the treatment of those with epilepsy, which are usually their only types of
It’s been my desire, longing for a nursing career since I was in my primary and secondary school. At the age of 12, I began to look after children and baby-sitting then, from there, I gained the understanding of how to deal with children. Nursing is one of the highly demanding careers that bring new challenges every day and it comes with various rewards and a real sense of job satisfaction. I chose nursing because it is a profession where you never really finish learning. It has been my dream job since my tender age. Seeing nurses visiting my school treating students, immunisation, teaching us about health and sexual health issues, this encouraged me. My goal and desire at that age have been to help people within the Health sector. That is how; I decided to go to college where I am currently doing my Access to Higher Education Diploma (Science), which involves Biology and Chemistry. I chose this pathway because I want to gain the relevant skills and knowledge of my career to be. As someone who wants to become a nurse, I found biology as an important role in the delivery of client car...
No one can predict the future, so I have no idea what the future entails for me. However, I will narrow down the most likely possibilities. Eventually, as time passes I could end up going active duty in the Navy as an Electrician's mate, or keep going to college and become an Electrical Engineer because of my prior knowledge in the field from my military training. Alternately, I could pursue my dreams of becoming a filmmaker. Whatever my decision may be, it's almost impossible for me to know for sure. What I can control is what I want and that is ultimately the driving factor behind the outcome of my actions, which will shape my future.
Psychiatry is a very flourishing, and rewarding career of choice. It has many upsCareer and downs. I have chosen this to be my career of choice because I like to help people with their problems, and look after them. I have been interested in this career choice ever since I realized that it is important to help others. I would enjoy a job in this career field for a variety of reasons. One reason would be that it pays quite well, however there will be many challenges to getting a job in this line of work. Some of those challenges include a lot of education, tons of money to pay for all of the schooling required, and the opportunity to actually obtain a job in this career field.
Or more specifically, I will be that person in about 5 years. I am currently pursuing my Bachelors degree in Psychology. I don’t want to do the typical “couch session” with my patients. My goal for my life, career wise, is to open my own practice. My dream is to have my own practice that caters to teenagers, specifically. I want more than anything to be able to show them that there are people that really do care about them.
In the future, I hope to pursue my career dream of becoming a pediatrician. Pediatricians can be identified individuals who specialize in giving medical care to children and adolescents between infancy to adulthood at eighteen years of age. I became inspired to become a pediatrician due to my immense love of children. Perhaps I have an innate intuition for taking care of people being that I have always felt that I excel at taking care of others. The idea of taking care of others truly makes me feel that I serve a purpose, not only to better the life of myself but the life of others. Therefore, I believe that becoming a pediatrician will help me combine the best of both worlds into a career that I adore and cherish.
Many have agreed that the stages of adolescence are the most difficult times in a person’s life. During this period, too many people find themselves suffering in silence, and turning to harmful behaviors such as, cutting, burning, extreme dieting, and even suicide as a method of dealing with their pain. I fell victim to these factors as well. Day in and day out I starved myself to achieve perfection that did not exist. Purged every bite I was forced to ingest in hopes of ridding myself of all pain and emotional baggage. I ran my emaciated, eighty five pound, body into the ground as a method of coping with life. However, I smiled, laughed, and pretended like everything was great when I was with my family. After several years of struggling with the thoughts associated with Anorexia Nervosa I never told anyone. I was embarrassed, and the thoughts and feelings did not make sense to me. I am close with each of my parents and I still did not want to take the risk of disappointing them. Even though my peers witnessed my unhealthy behaviors they did not tell an adult. Looking back I began to wonder why. Why would they let me harm myself like that right in front of their eyes? My behaviors did not make sense to them, and my threats of hatred and relationship abolishment overpowered their logic. It became apparent to me that this is all too common in high schools especially. Programs for students, teachers, and parents regarding education about noticing warning signs, and addressing self-harming behaviors do not exist, and need to be installed to ensure more methods of prevention and treatment of self-harming activities.