I know it's your major and all...

Why are people so skeptical? Why are people so quick to judge what they do not understand? Why do people feel that if they have lived for any amount of years or had life experience of consider themselves wise or intelligent then they know all that matters. Sometimes I just want to shake people and scream in their face and say “YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT SO SHUT THE HELL UP!!” This is my life. This is my major. This is what I’m learning. This is what I am going to do for a living. I think I know more than you do on the Subject matter.

I am a Psychology Major. There are such things as Mental Disorders. Things exist that impair your functioning. Things exist that people can not control. Some people can not just “get over it” or “act normal” or “get real” or “be happy” or “concentrate” or “sit still”. Telling some people to do these things is like telling a person with cancer “Just get better.” See the stupidity?

I do not know everything. But I know enough to know that some people just do not want to admit that not everyone is in full control. I don’t know why. Maybe it challenges their world view. Maybe it challenges their faith. Maybe it just scares them. But to say that things do not exist is just ignorant. Why? Because people who actually have these disorders do not use them as a cop-out. Sometimes they even know that they have something wrong with them, but they don’t have the ability to change. Some people can’t just stop or get better.

I guess this is a battle I’ll always have. I still don’t know how to handle it. Right now I have decided that these people won’t change their mind just because a College undergrad student tells them it’s real. So I just keep quiet and let them hold their own opinions. It’s not worth the argument. Maybe someday I’ll find a way to change their minds.

But for now, Whatever. Be ignorant. Insult me. Insult my profession of choice. Insult the people that deal with these problems that they can’t control. I just hope you don’t find someone close to you who has one of the problems you label so “fake”.