Student essay written in en (native language: French, CEFR level: B1, field of study: Sciences humaines et sociales)

I did two years of medicine studies before studying psychology. During these years I studied psychology in class and I had show interest for that.
Moreover, I saw a psychologist after bad events in my life such as the announce of the disease of one of my favorite family member, and after the deaths of my grandparents and uncle. I saw the benefits of this psychologist's help on me and my family like my mother or my brother. I had the chance to meet different psychotherapist to ask them some questions about this job and that comfort me about this choice of career.
I think a lot of people suffering from problems which have an impact of their mental health and I want to help them to overcome it and to live a better life.
The mental health is a very actual problem in our society because a lot of people is scared to talk about their problems and doesn't want to be look as crazy people. I want to change this stigma.
The psychology has a range of different theories. Indeed we can look the psychology with the cognitive theory or with the social point of view. There are a lot of approaches in psychology and that could give a global approach to increase the therapy. Thanks to that we can treat our futur patient with a lot of methods and know a range of knowledges on different types of psychology. We will can adapt our methods to the patient and help him with his personal traumas and affects. Indeed everyone has a personal story with different events that impact our life everyday, so the psychology must adapt its theories to help everyone with the better approach.
Moreover the mental health could have an impact on the physical health and a lot of problems could be resolved by a therapy on mental health.
So, I decided to study psychology because of my personal story and because I see a lot of people suffering from mental health disorders, children for example.