What do you think of psychologists? Because that's my major for college.?

Answer 1

well thats a good choice u made
i took psychology in my graduation
n i feel lot of psychologist will be needed in future as concerning the problems we all are facing in our lives
ppl have different views regarding them
their patients ,somehate them while some like them as they can share anything they like to.
relatives of the patients treat the psychologist as if s/he is the best medicine they can get for the person
but remember the psychologist's life isnt easy they'll have to leave behind all the cases they deal with when they are back home. to some extent their cases often trouble their work at home.
but thats wat psychologist are, a good listener n understanding the problem of the person n assuring them "soon they'll be ok"

wish u good luck

Answer 2

remember that to be a psychologist, you have to have a *doctoral* degree in psychology. just having a bachelors degree or even a masters doesn't make someone a psychologist

i've worked as a therapist for 6 years and absolutely love it. i can only think of 1 person i know who doesn't find the profession extremely rewarding in terms of how much difference you can see in a patient's life before and after treatment

Answer 3

I think they are great---I've never been to one--- but I think they are great. I am a Psychology major as well and I am pursuing my Master's in School Psychology so I can be a School Psychologist! Good Luck with everything!

Answer 4

My suggestion to you, is before you take on some cushy office job and pass out medications like business cards because it is just easier for you to do so then to actually make someone get better... Go out into the real world and experience mental illness from the perspective of the mentally ill. Their family history, their enviornment, their lives and daily struggles. Real life...

Non Profit organizations are an excellent starting place. Mental illness comes in all shapes and sizes but you will get no better experience than when you get down and dirty with the poor, the homeless, the institutionalized and the really down trodden and hopeless.

You will also gain a perspective of the others in this same field that you didn't expect. How in some cases, the so called professionals that treat these people are no better than the patients themselves. Nurses, ARNP's, Doctors, Social Workers... In many cases, they are cruel and unusual and in others they are benevolent and kind selfless and really an asset to mental health. No matter how hard a poor, or homeless patient, self medicating with street drugs is to treat... and BELIEVE ME... they are hard to treat!

It's easy to treat a rich white woman who is depressed because her Botox didn't take and she is suffering from a messed up face that will last for two months and she is horribly depressed and suffers from poor self image because she looks like Meg Ryan or Nicole Kidman... (until or course, this shot wears off and she can run back and get another one that does come out right.)

These are things that should be treated yes... and there should be someone there to treat them, but not all of you should go for the easy out and or the money jobs without first experiencing the real deal.

Non profit mental health is your best bet for all the experience you can muster. It will probably put your head into perspective and give you an edge and an understanding of actual mental health issues from a place that most people never get to see not even in Wards or inpatient facilities, not even in Emergency rooms...

It is the hardest, yet most rewarding aspect of mental health you will ever take on. I think it will keep you from becomming one of those pill pushing drones with their beautiful offices and their well behaved, heavily medicated patients. Don't become one of them Please... We have quite enough.

Answer 5

I know a lot of psychologists, and they all hate their jobs. They've pretty much all told me that after the first couple of years, they want to just slap their patients and tell them to stop whining!

The only psychologist I know who likes his job teaches psychology.

Answer 6

I think if you want to be a good psychologist you will learn to not care so much what people think.

Answer 7

Psychologist!not bad but they see things in another way round.May be you have to be a little bit dynamic in the way and manner you see things otherwise!

Answer 8

I think you'll have trouble getting a job right out of college and will have to go to graduate school to get your master's degree.
Generally, I think of them as smart people.

Answer 9

thats my major too :)