Also to clear this up since I did a little chat scrolling:
15:43 aubrieta: Ya but he knows psychology and has a masters in it
It's actually a Bachelors degree as part of a double major, I haven't done the full eight years. This gives me the option of being a councilor for instance or someone who works in the lab, but I am not at the top of the field and able to publish important articles or anything like that.
The only thing stopping me other than myself for going back for another four years is a lack of lab credits.
As for if people with mental illness can work in the field, they actually can if either their history has been successfully managed or they otherwise have no history of being hospitalized. The presence of a disorder is not something that has to be discussed with the workplace if it's not on record as an occupational hazard, and it gets less in the way than you'd think.
There's actually tons of people with disorders that work in the field, many who went into it for the very sake of figuring themselves out or from the push of that being their life context pre-18, or even over a sibling or parent having a worse expression of the disorder inspiring said person to try to "find answers".
Elyn Saks, writer of The Center Cannot Hold, was somewhat of an inspiration for me once I felt like it'd never work out, and even before her I'd mostly figured it "wouldn't work out" over the disorder itself as opposed to the presence of disorders in the field. Even my favorite professor who taught both Abnormal Psychology and Psychology of Addiction himself clearly had some demons of his own he was fending off.
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