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· by miyukiphd
· (originally posted) September 11, 2017
I developed the personality of ‘a listener’ at a young age and I have been utilising it for my professional role in more recent years. There are several reasons why I decided to start this blog. The main reason is based on the fact that there are thousands of people who are not seeing a psychologist due to the social stigma attached to mental illness and misconception of treatment. To be honest, I did not know much about clinical psychology before studying psychology at university – my initial interest was cognition and memory (i.e., human consciousness). Nowadays, I see more and more clients who lost their loved ones from suicide. Furthermore, because of my special interest being trauma, I see many trauma survivors and many of them have been suffering silently for decades. These people told me that they found it ‘shameful’ to have (admit) a mental illness and they had never thought of sharing their suffering with others. This may be due to a lack of empathic carers/parents in their lives, and they could not imagine sharing their feelings with others. Or simply, they have been blaming themselves for what happened to them and who they are now. Even if they have empathic carers/families, unless they accept their mental health issues, I will never see them. Insight and motivation of clients are the important factors in achieving good outcomes in psychological treatment.
So, I am hoping for such people to gain accurate information of psychology/mental health and will then visit their local psychological clinic, which will ultimately improve their quality of life (I hope!). Also, even if you don’t have mental health issues, I believe that understanding your psyche would improve your life, like it did for me.
Online psychological therapy or answers to your questions are not offered at this moment. I hope you enjoy my blog!