Student essay written in en (native language: French, CEFR level: C1, field of study: Sciences humaines et sociales)

I am currently studying psychology. It wasn't my first choice in high school since I didn't even know anything about this formation, I just knew I've always loved understanding where people's thoughts come from, the origins of some mental disorder and phenomenons... And to be honest the rest of my possibilities weren't as appealing as they once were to me. So, expecting nothing in particular I went for psychology and I am not disappointed.
We learn about the structure of the mind, the brain, how it functions and dysfunctions, all the theories built up over the years, the experiments... I find it all extremely interesting.
But I guess my main motivation when going into the human and social sciences was to help people, understand them and guide them to understand themselves better and ideally heal.
The one thing that really really pushed me to make that decision was a very very close member of my family. This person is one of the most important for me and years ago they suffered from depression, social anxiety, a phobia of school... They dropped out of high school and wasn't doing good at all. So they started therapy and their relatives were very understanding, patient, willing to learn in order to accompany them through her healing journey. That inspired me to do the same, help people understand, educate them... Today they're doing much better, they even went back to school and obtained their diploma!
However, I don't know if I really want to be a therapist later. I do think it's a very good and valuable career but I'm not sure I want it to be my career.
I think I would be more into working in criminology and victimology, trying to understand where some acts of violence come from, the eventual trauma, mental disability, obsessions... the overall motivation but also doing my best to help the victim or the family of the victim recover, heal... I watch a lot of true crime, I've seen an enormous amount of videos depicting cases all over the world and especially of indivudals brought in for questioning when arrested. The psychological thechniques used in these -either the line followed for questioning or the decrypting of the individual- are fascinating to me. I'd love doing this job, trying to understand where the crime came from and in a way help the victims get justice.
To sum up, I chose psychology in order to learn more and more things about the human brain and its functioning and this choice was pushed further by my motivation to help people understand themselves in a world where chaos is so common. I'm also very interested in criminology.