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I thought I would say hello....hello!

How is everyone? I am fine.

I live in Canterbury in the UK and work at a nuclear power station as an operations training instructor.

(Why does the above sound like a foreign english language course introduction?)

Hi Chunkymicken....what do you plan on doing with that psyc degree?I was a psyc major,now I change adult diapers for DD clients(to shy to be a counsler,couldnt teach psyc because I think alot of it is bull)
Just interested in your perspective on it?

welcome to the Planet.....

hello!! !! !! !! ! Wales calling!

I actually have a phsyics degree and am taking a postgraduate conversion through distance learning and am only on the foundation.

I find it all very interesting and want to go on and do research.

I do not know how Pyschology was taught to you, but to me its been taught as a mass of complementary, coexisting and conflicting perspectives. I am most interested in socio-cognitive perspectives and would like to carry out research in these areas. However, I am generally interested in anything to do with psychology and would happily talk for hours with someone else about it.

I think my ideal job would be to spend most of my time reading psychology research papers and thinking about research, some of my time carrying out research, some of my time talking to other like minded people about psychology research and a bit of time teaching.

I actually agree with alot of the theories so research and teaching is not too much of a problem.

I think you could do alot with your psychology degree, it depends what you are interested in. I think saying that alot of it is bull suggests that it is not something you are particularly interested in. What sort of things do you not agree with?

Hello,

My boyfriend is welsh (from Prestatyn)

God! I sounded if I was a slavic country on eurovision! LOL!

Here are the results of the Welsh jury!

Lloegr dim sgôr!

England ten points?!?!?!?!

I have no idea am s**t at welsh, supposed to be england nil points....

bother I'm tired being biliguial is not fun I get confused sometimes with what lanuage I'm using.

Chunkymicken...


ok...psyc isnt ALL bull...just very frustrating to me.


I speak more as a "client" of psyc then a student...

My main issues were with Fraud....I mean Frued..Froid?ok I cant spell,,,,you know the guy with the oral fetish who was a coke head,lusted after his daughter and thought I wanted to either have sex with my father or have his penis?....uhm...nope.

Also have "issues "with the fact that "theories" are presented as "theories" but put in practice as if they were hard science....mainly because nuts like me have been used as geniepigs for so many years...(not sure why its called guinpig when they se rats?)

First there was the slant that(advocated by many different theories who just used different term for the same concept)we are "victems" of our childhoods.Obviously we are influenced by our environment as children but humans are so,so complex...I hate the over simplification and generalization of many of theories.(like I am doing now,no doubt )I spent alot of time being asked to recall painful experiences of my life...focussing on them...reliving them...rolling around in them like a pig in mud...end result,had some interesting theories about why I am so "weird"...lack of putting any of this into perspective for me...just turned me into feeling like a "victem"and being more self centered...


Then,there was the whole...every messed up person MUST have been sexually abused(remember the whitch hunts of the 80"s?)The more you deny there was any sexual abuse the more "indenial" and "repressing" you are doing....


Now,they have swung to the other extream...everything is chemical...I know very few people who arent or havent been put on anti-depressants...any theories about how psychologically unhealthy our current society is that might be "creating" so much depression?Not much....to believe so makes me dellussional,depressed or paranoid.

two theories that I found interesting were "existential angst"....and one counsler I had, "eclectic"but used alot of RET with me...at least this one made some logical sense to me...

My counsler said..."It doesnt matter if what you think is correct..in only matters that it is making you miserable to think those thoughts and the thoughts are leading to actions that are self destructive and nonproductive"...that I could relate to....so I just avoided reading things that made me "think" to much.
Seems to work for most of society...they are happier then me...they just watch alot of TV and spend time in social situations that involve any real depth of issues(I went to see alot of bands in bars)

So now,I'm dumber and alot happier
Its been 12 years since I tried any kind of "therapy",but recently discovered AS and became fascinated
I am currently in process of DX...if true,could explain alot of the gaps left unanswered by past therapys
Hope I am on the right track and not just deluding myself with something new and trendy...

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