I welcome you to my page, and from now on also to my blog that I am provisionally calling 'Inside the mind of a psychologist'.
My intention is to use the blog as a creative outlet - but I hope it might also become a useful source of demystifying the notion that psychologists can 'rEAd yOUr mINd', or that we have got our shit 'tOgetHer' (we really don't). In fact, when our family members tell us that we 'should really understand ______ because we are psychologists' there is nothing more we want to do than scream at the top of our lungs that we are 'FIRST AND FOREMOST HUMAN' and that we 'ARE NOT EVEN GETTING PAID FOR THIS!' It does happen, believe me.
Why do people think that in our personal relationships we should have more patience and understanding than all the other regular Homo sapiens who get to be illogical, irrational and annoying? The inner worlds of psychologists are just as messy, dark and fascinating as anybody else's. We experience similar doubts and tribulations when faced with life challenges or relationship difficulties, same crippling fears of vulnerability, same suffocating grip of existential dread.
We might have ventured into the business of trying to understand other humans better, supporting them through crises and challenges. We might even be very skilled at that. Still - that doesn't mean we are a different breed. We are here, prodding along, along with everybody else, often struggling to understand ourselves, our loved ones, and the world around us - all of which can be frustratingly illogical and yet completely unsurprising all at once.
Welcome to the mind wanderings of this one psychologist. I look forward to seeing where this blog takes me.
PS. Adding a photo of my dog - because she is at all times only one thought away of being at the forefront of my mind.
PSS. Do the hashtags or the PS. come first? #millenialstruggles
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