My future job

 

For start I have to say, I am one of the lucky persons that get the chance of studying something they love, I am currently in fourth year of psychology and I have loved (most of) the career, I project myself working in a mental hospital or in a clinical environment, although I have been recently attracted to sports psychology from a community intervention point of view.

I have always been deeply interested in learning from and about people, I think every mind is a different world full of knowledge (even of the people I do not like), that adding I have always been curious, and psychology is the perfect career where I can learn not only from theory and research, but also from people, while at the same time I am helping them.

Nowadays, even when psychology is one of the most requested careers at national level, not many people understand what therapists do, a lot of people still believes that therapist only treat “crazy people” or that they are dedicated to medicate their patients, when it is not the case. There is a huge prejudice about mental health specialists, even when Chile is one of the countries with worst mental health in the world according to the World Health Organization, It is important to acknowledge the importance of mental health, mostly in the current times.

Here is a beautiful short film that summarize about what therapists aims to do, enjoy!