I find it funny that I was interested about becoming a psychiatrist before my sz. I took 4 psychology elective classes and a neuroscience class in my physiotherapy program. I had very high grades, my psy teacher wrote A++, max grade is A+, on my midterm exam and asked me if I am interested into switching to psychology and doing a PhD.
I had the grades to transfer to medicine but sz hit hard my grades before I finish the required amount of courses to do the transfer. I told this to my psychiatrist and he was pretty sad, he said problems fall on our head from the sky unpredictably.
I was interested in psychology way back when I was teenager. I even had a subscription to Psychology Today. I remember reading a psychology book when I was 18 or 19 and reading symptoms and descriptions of various mental disorders and thinking I had most of them, lol. It’s actually quite common, many first year psychology students go through the same thing.
Several years before my first major breakdown, when in high school, and during my prodromal period, I took a high school level psychology class. I remember reading a bit about abnormal psychology in it. I don’t remember recognizing myself in any of it.
I was interested in a particular disorder in psychiatry, but I can’t say I was interested in it as a whole. I was interested in OCD because I had it, but also because it runs through my family like wildfire; just in my family alone, three out of four kids have it, and pretty severe too.
Though, now thinking about it, I was a little bit interested in schizophrenia as a child due to the fact that a someone from my church had it. I just never expected that it would happen to me.
I only had a common knowledge of Freud in high school. I think my friends and I used our psych knowledge more to tease each other than to have any serious interest. I was “accused” of having penis envy - lol.
not really. but my psychology class my freshmen year of college was my most interesting. actually the only one i went to all the time. the rest i just showed up on for tests and for midterms and finals.
No, I was not interested in psychiatry, but I got diagnosed when I was 12, soooo…never really understood what it was all about until I got older. The older I get, the more I realize I know hardly anything.
Yep, began towards the beginning of 7th grade. I was full-on floridly psychotic by the time I was 14. Early intervention did little to help me. Not too terribly common, but I’ve seen various users on here report hearing voices at less than 10 years old.