psychology students

[Vincent]

does studying psychology help to overcome SA?

 

[Pluvia]

I've been wondering about this. I'm gonna take the course at home. That's why I chose it, for the slight possibility that it might help me

 

[StopCryingYourHeartOut]

Wow this thread died a long long time ago...I thought we should bring it back to life...

To answer the question...I'm doing a Psychology BSc at the moment graduating next June and I have to say some aspects of the course did help me with my depression and anxiety.

First of all i chose an option module last year called the Psychology of Happiness. We learned stuff like how to appreciate what you already have, being optimistic, committing to your goals, finding a hobby, learning to forgive, being nice to people, avoiding social comparison and developing coping strategies.
I strongly recommend all of you who are depressed to read a book on Happiness/Positive psychology. Seligman's book is really good.

Secondly we had quite a few presentations to do throughout the course so we had a session on how to cope with anxiety when giving public speeches and we were taught a couple of relaxation techniques. That definitely helped with my SA.

Anyone else a psychology graduate or student? Or just interested in psychology and learnt stuff from books, etc?

 

[Srijita52]

Wow this thread died a long long time ago...I thought we should bring it back to life...

To answer the question...I'm doing a Psychology BSc at the moment graduating next June and I have to say some aspects of the course did help me with my depression and anxiety.

First of all i chose an option module last year called the Psychology of Happiness. We learned stuff like how to appreciate what you already have, being optimistic, committing to your goals, finding a hobby, learning to forgive, being nice to people, avoiding social comparison and developing coping strategies.
I strongly recommend all of you who are depressed to read a book on Happiness/Positive psychology. Seligman's book is really good.

Secondly we had quite a few presentations to do throughout the course so we had a session on how to cope with anxiety when giving public speeches and we were taught a couple of relaxation techniques. That definitely helped with my SA.

Anyone else a psychology graduate or student? Or just interested in psychology and learnt stuff from books, etc?

WOW!Its great to know there're other psychology students here.I'm studying it in highschool now & wanna study psychology in college too.Its really very interesting & it helped me a lot to understand my problems.

 

[Vampayah88]

I took this course last year, The Psychology of Education. We had to play random stuff ,be sponteneous, give our opinions,the teacher would give us like 5 minutes to make up certain stories, games etc and then we would have to talk about them and present them in front of the whole class (there were MANY people). I only had this course one day per week and I felt like throwing up every time when thinking about that day and how it was coming closer. It was a complete fvcking nightmare, I gave up after like one month and a half even though everyone was pushing me to keep attending it. I felt SUCH relief after that.

 

[Blabla..]

I say yes , it could definitely help , as long as you see clearly what is going on and you take the necessary steps to fix it , there is no reason for it not to help. Studying psychology alone will not help , you have to study your own self.

 

[LazyHermitCrab]

Not really for me anyway, took it in hs and remember being the the one of two introverts there after taking a test. The other introvert was the direct opposite of me personality wise, so i thought i was completely alone in which i discover now is avpd/sa.. oh great.

 

[we_r_eternal]

simple answer is no.. not at all... knowledge doesn't help with chemical issues in the brain or else we'd all have a simple solution to our prob... sry!