Jaboo's Garden

Insensibility, moral and other things.

So I went to an introductive psychology course (it was an introduction to the career, oriented from clinic/therapeutic psychology, but it also applies to other types), and as someone highly sensitive, I was shocked seeing so many people being so ableist (I won't get intro details, but they used old terminology even when the teacher told us to don't use it, and other ugly things) as someone who struggles with their own mental health and, besides don't having a diagnosis, has been speculated from professionals to have multiple disordes (even through they don't leave to nothing) I must admit, I was devasted.

I was listening to a podcast (is called hablame in plural, is in spanish, but for those that speak spanish I really recommend it!) and in some of their episodes they explain how so many bad things are happening in the world, and how we are exposed it from the media. It makes us feel insensitive, because we don't have the time to fix all this many problems.

But it still hurted me, because, why would you be so ableist if you want to study psychology? Most of them admited that they wanted because it made them feel intelectual, and that hurted me. Because psychology in all of its areas is so delicated, since you are treating humans, how could they be so dehumanizing?

I just wish people would be better, I mean there was good people, for example this girl that told me she was sorry for not assisting to our meeting because she got sick (and it was the first time that someone in the course had some of affective responsability). She asked for my *** and was really sweet overall.

So I guess people aren't that bad. I know this sounds like a black or white point of view, and is something that I'm working in therapy, but putting my thoughts into words helps me a lot.