Student essay written in en (native language: French, CEFR level: B2, field of study: Sciences humaines et sociales)

I wanted first to be a doctor however I was refused in the degree I candidated in, so I decided to choose another degree linked with health. So this psychology degree was such an amazing discovery because in the first place I hadn't a big idea of what we'll study. It changed my personnal view of people and it allowed me to answer some questions that I had about myself. I realized that we're very limited beings with our bias and our human perception of our environment. I realized also that is important to let people deal with their problems with their own beliefs system and tools and to not think that our way to think is the right thing to do. It made me more empathic and more humble. I came across many different people during those three years, with plural issues that I never experienced myself particularly some people who faced with drugs and their addiction. It changed my vision of those people and the stereotyps that I got about them. I met also people with personnality disorders and neurodivergent people. I didn't understand their way to behave sometimes but this time I didn't take things too personnaly. I tried to get more knowledge about it and of course it's not enough because all the symptomatology we're reading in the surveys doesn't always portrayed reality with accuracy (in my opinion). The answers that I obtained about myself is about my anxiety. I thought that I had a problem and I was not normal because I experienced stress in a high intensity and my relatives and other people told me also that I was hyperreacting. But when we studied the psychopathology and particularly the fact that the symptom have a function, it really hit me hard. The symptom was just a manifestation of my own history and my own perception and it had a function to cope with my problems. I know it's really personnal and it's a real subjective way to interprete things but I think it's important to mention this because it's part of why I want to be a psychologist and my personnal experience of my degree.
So I want to help people dealing with their problems and/or disorders. I'll not pretend that I'm capable of healing them because the answers are in their side but I want to guide them the best way possible and adapted to them.