You know you're a Psych major when...

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<p>I’m making this thread on how much your major or what you learned becomes apart of you. So feel free to change the ‘Psych’ major and put yours down.</p>

<p>You know you’re a Psych major when you find yourself wanting to correct others on their usage of a mental disorder. Like when someone calls another person who they think is crazy bipolar w/o really knowing what bipolar means!</p>

<p>I’ve did this before and it didn’t end well so now I just hold my tongue although its really, really difficult.</p>

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<p>I’m not a psych major, but what comes to mind is “… and how does that make you feel?”</p>

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<p>You know you’re a Psych major when you’re full of ****.</p>

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<p>“You know you’re a Psych major when you find yourself wanting to correct others on their usage of a mental disorder. Like when someone calls another person who they think is crazy bipolar w/o really knowing what bipolar means!”</p>

<p>I do the same thing. I HATE when people use mental disorders in a derogatory way. Especially with bipolar. I know several bipolar individuals and it makes me so mad. </p>

<p>Of course, the fact that mental health is so misunderstood/stigmatized is a huge hot-button issue for me. That’s why I’m going to be a psych major. :)</p>

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<p>^I think you’re mental.</p>

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<p>You know you’re a psych major when you don’t have a job.</p>

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<p>@amber & Rox yep, I do that all the time now. Especially with all the idiots saying Obama has one or something, I’m like “Have you read the DSM-IV-TR sir/ma’am?” “Uhhh hehehe… no, wuts that?” “THEN SHUT UP!!!”</p>

<p>For a long time (and still) mom confuses Disassociative Identity Disorder with being Schizophrenic, apparantly it’s a widely believed myth and I keep correcting her and she keeps forgetting and going “You know, like Sybil, she had Schizophrenia” and I go “Mom, no, Sybil had Disassociative Identity Disorder, which may or may not ACTUALLY exist… and recent evidence suggests that the Psychologist that studied Sybil was wrong and asked leading questions that “created” the DID where she didn’t really have it to begin with.”</p>

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<p>lol lot of *******s in this thread. </p>

<p>Still, I recommend Psych majors go for graduate degrees, as an B.S/B.A in psychology isn’t going to get you a lot of jobs as the field is saturated with them.</p>

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<p>you know you’re a psych major when you finf yourself secretly analyzing your friends</p>

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<p>Or yourself…</p>

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<p>Yes we know Precognition. I’m sure EVERY psych major knows they have to go to grad school if they want a decent job. xD</p>

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<p>You see a recruitment notice for a medical study and explain to your mom that studies aren’t going to go outside their posted age limit because that limit was approved by IRB and should be supported by the literature.</p>