Psychology - Trauma or Triumph?

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I have come across many people who have said, "Dealing with mental health patients affects you. Or You can't work in this field if you have traumatic history/ gone through mental health issues."


What do you think? The people who are working in mental health professionals don't have any traumatic history? They don't have any mental health issues that's why they are capable of working in this field? 


If you are thinking about this, well! It is not what you think about it. Let me take you to ride how it feels like to be working as mental health professionals. What are concerns which need to be brought and worked when you are working in this field. 


When I heard about this subject I didn't know what it meant. I just chose it because another option I didn't like, was economics. I started studying it for 11th and 12th. I felt okay kinda feeling. Just like you get introduced to a new person.


During my Bachelor's degree I chose and found multiple streams of life in it. The very first sentence I heard from my HOD of psychology was, "No Human being is good or bad, it is just the situations which change their behaviour." This line hit me hard, thinking about my mother. My mother was suffering with some mental health issues, which I later got to know it was 'Schizophrenia'. Slowly I started behaving well with her instead of worse. Slowly things started changing by changing my perspective. 


I once approached a counselor and spoke about myself. All those years since childhood I felt lost was found by myself with the help of counseling. It healed so much that I started enjoying every little thing in which I was never interested. Slowly things started changing. In my Master's I was having too much to study. It was difficult to manage household chores and studies, along with my mom. Somehow I managed and completed it. I thought I successfully did it, but it wasn't the end of learning. 


I lost my mom in 2022, everything turned upside down as it was the sudden death of her. It was difficult for me. I tried to go to an internship, lying to my parents that it was compulsory, because I couldn't stay at home. I was having sleepless nights and emptiness all day. Later after 8 months I got a job as a counseling psychologist. That too worsened my health, where I was affected so much that I got IBS. It changed my job after 4 months as it was affecting myself. 



I started practicing under a private clinic. The moment I joined, slowly I was healing as I was exposed to so many cases. Through them I learnt to manage myself. Slowly as I would read books for counseling or therapies. I went in depth of my own self. I started working with clients. 



Currently being a psychologist, I am taking help of counseling. I am not ashamed of it. One main thing I learnt about counseling is, we have to leave our own backs behind. We have to heal ourselves and help others to heal. Our own emotions or beliefs shouldn't affect others. Nor should we mix it in therapy. We should learn to keep boundaries. We should maintain the ethics of counseling. I am healing in the process of healing others. 


Without psychology, I wouldn't be what I am today. As psychology has given me a purpose to manage my own life. It has changed me and my surroundings. It has given me a purpose to live and serve others. The reason I chose this field is, whether it gives me money or not. It will always help to build hope in me and others to live life. It is more than mom which I carry within myself. 



It is the field where I understood that sometimes our emotions can be displayed in form of physical illness, which is ignored most of the time. I understood how there are skin disorder such as porosis can be caused to psychological problems. How trauma, depression, anxiety can worsen someone's life. How difficult it is for a person to rebuild their life, when fighting several battles. I think psychology can save several lives if it is understood by most of us. I have many professionals who had someone or themselves struggling with psychological problems and now they have turned out to be the best mental health professionals. 


What do you think about psychology? Why did you choose it? Comment your opinions about psychology and tag your loved and close ones, who have chosen this field and have a dream to build a career in it. I am proud of all mental health professionals out there who have been struggling to help themselves as well as others. Remember! It is all about learning and living new experiences. Let's heal each other.  

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