Back to the topic, why do you become depressed when studying psychology? This article will analyze it from several angles.
Academic pressure
Psychology students must have academic pressure, especially psychology is a difficult subject in college. If you want to study well, you must spend your effort and energy. You need to read a lot of materials and listen to lectures and take notes in class. Review and consolidate after class.
In the United States, the first freshman and sophomore year were the most difficult two years. My PSY 101 barely passed the test after getting C. Although it has something to do with the professor I chose, I failed the first and second exams. I almost have to switch to majors or re-read.
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Plus, you will feel lonely from time to time in a foreign country. Any non-urban area in Europe and the United States is sparsely populated, so it is impossible not to feel lonely. It is not that easy to make a few local friends. If you stay at home all the time, it is easy to become depressed under the double pressure of your studies.
Understanding the self
This huge discipline of psychology will make people think from many aspects the most primitive aspects, from the perspective of physical and biological, from the perspective of social and humanities, and from the perspective of comprehensive aspects. Even if you graduate from a doctorate, it's just the beginning. What's more, undergraduate and graduate students who have studied for 4 or 6 years.
In short, it is normal to be confused if you study psychology, because this huge discipline has no end. It needs to be accumulated slowly by generations of research. If you feel some discomfort at a certain stage of learning, it is normal.
Only those who think they know everything will feel very comfortable because all their cognition is based on their own system and the outside world will not interfere with them. For example, it is impossible for many self-righteous teachers to reason with them.
If you want to talk about things like understanding, some people may become very transparent at the age of 30. Some people will never understand it in their entire lives. However, psychology is a very objective discipline, and all theories are based on data and experiments, and this process will never be explored.
Action is difficult
There is not positive psychology in psychology? Clinical Psychology isn’t specifically used for treatment? That's right, it's true.
has heard a lot of truths, but it still can't live a good life.
The difficulty is always action and long-termism. There are many theories mentioned in positive psychology, but it is really not that easy to practice. The simplest way to stick to exercise every day is that many people can't stick to it.
Adler self-psychology emphasizes establishing cooperation with others, but some people are just social terror, and like a person's form that violates human evolution .
"Scarce" throughout the book emphasizes leisure. People must have their own free time to control, but some people are proactive and have troubles all over if they don't work for a day.
Some people have very solid self-logics, and ordinary psychological treatment is completely useless to them. Seeing a psychologist once is far from achieving the effect of treatment.
It can be seen that independent learning, self-improvement and self-action in such a huge subject of psychology are eternal principles. Another point is that if you feel depressed during your psychology study, my advice is to conduct cross-learning and learn something else from time to time.