Quote: wise beyond your years
It's funny you should say this, I've heard that from a few other people in my life.
So Patti this is kind of going to be long, but your comment sparked an intense desire for me to write about this lol.
I started off as a liberal arts major in college and I was taking psychology because thats what I thought I would want to pursue. But as I continued on I realized a lot of psychology is about analyzing people and coming up with definitions and categorizing abnormal behavior. I'm very good at understanding people for some reason and I try to help when I can. But I couldn't enter a profession knowing that I wouldn't be capable of helping others who deal with the same problems as me. There are a lot of psychologists out there that run their businesses with money as the main focus and make clients dependent on them so they always have a source of income. But there are also very good ones, the problem is you have to go through a lot of bad ones first and it is just mentally exhausting. Most people like me don't have the energy to do that and I believe that is part of the reason why a lot of people don't seek help.
In my opinion psychology is outdated. It needs to adapt better. Our world is changing fast, people are bombarded with stimulus every single day and I believe we live in more stressful times. Talking about our problems shouldn't cost money and a psychologist needs to understand how to solve a problem, not discuss the theory behind it. Positive thinking is another danger that goes overlooked. Positive thinking can pull a person into a deep depression by the assumption that it is their fault they are depressed and they just need to "stop being so negative".
The hot topic in psychology today is cognitive behavioral therapy, where an individual changes their thinking. This is close, but this only skims the surface of people's problems. The new theory is thoughts cause emotions, while this is true it neglects the fact that habits have been formed inside the brain. Cognitive behavioral therapy takes a conscious approach to solve a subconscious problem, it might work for people with minor problems but for deeper ingrained problems it's not going to work. I went to a cognitive behavioral therapist and they are good at making you aware RATIONALLY how ridiculous your problem might be, but depression and anxiety are sometimes IRRATIONAL behaviors, thus the logic used in cognitive behavioral therapy will have minimal effect.
Well thats my rant about psychology anyway lol. So far the subliminal has achieved more for me than I have been able to do in probably 3 years of positive thinking, self-help, affirmations, and professional help. It is making a change at a deep subconscious level and changing habits, which is much more powerful than consciously doing something.
It's a shame that many professionals dismiss subliminals as useless or placebo and continue to use their outdated methods. The brain often gets compared to a supercomputer. I see subliminals as a way to install new behaviors into your brain and overwrite old ones. Subliminals are just the beginning. I believe in the future they will have a way to map out your brain on a computer and using electrical impulses to change neural pathways instantly while presenting new positive behaviors to you.
It is interesting to note that electro convulsive therapy can be used to cure depression sometimes by "rebooting" the brain. There is a lot about the human mind modern research still hasn't discovered.
I hope I didn't sound too pretentious in this post.
