Can be answered without reading my long post** but for my personal context:
My whole life since a small child before I even know about psychology, I was so fascinated by understanding behaviour and the mind. To the point where I began seeing the world from a psychological perspective at a very young age. Since I was in elementary school and knew how to use a computer, I’d just watch psychology documentaries and lectures on YouTube. It engulfed my entire being, an obsession where I did not experience life and relationships outside the lens of psychological analysis.
A flip switched after university where all of a sudden I couldn’t stand discussions people asking me my psychology perspective when before it lit up my mind. At first I thought I was just done with school or because everything I learned and inquiries made by my friends were boring things Ive already dissected. But then when new ideas came up I just felt so ‘over it’ as if I just didn’t care anymore. It doesn’t excite me like it used to.
Am I just burnt out as a phase, or do I need to move on? I don’t know myself outside of this. I’ve dedicated my life thinking psychology would be my career. But I’m worried I won’t be able to do well in a counselling masters if this isn’t a phase… idk what I want from this post but I’m just lost. I know people change and switch career paths but this isn’t a career path I simply gravitated to as I got older. It has been my essence of being since literally being a child thinking about psychology theories and their details on my own before even knowing they existed or even why psychology was.
Any insight?
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Yes, right now. I draw all my life and went my way to get a design master and work in the industry but now I just can’t draw a single more flower pattern anymore… I’ve been drawing the same thing over and over and over again in the past two years I want to disappear from the surface of earth
I feel you man, I really feel you, maybe you need a break, try something else maybe, working in the industry is very different from just having passion for something
You have a gift,you were given a gift. If you can maintain your own joy and mental health, use your gift to help others. Oceans and oceans of people lost because of the unhealthy,negative mental stress that is so difficult to manage. More urgency and emphasis needs to be put on this type of care and emergency attention.
yep. did a bachelors in writing with the intent of being a novelist/journalist. I have had such an odd life, a lot of people suggested that I write my autobiography but by the time I got through the degree, I was exhausted by the industry and lost my passion for it. I ended up being a widely published poet, something I never expected but it didn’t work out the way I hoped.