the fact that psychology majors don’t have a reputation as being particularly charismatic or good at relationships or even at managing people is a pretty damning indictment of either academic psychology or college or both
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by the way you could substitute "psychology majors" for "therapists" or "meditators" here and i think it would still be true 😛
in all three cases there are substantial selection effects. people are drawn to these practices because they can tell they're really fucked up
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haha welp
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source of all of this is that I was a psychology major, got a degree and all of that good stuff and my favorite class was:
abnormal psychology
where people would out themselves constantly
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same energy
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holy shit lmao @meekaale i’m still laughing this was so good 
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TBF these are topics not even remotely like the ones covered in psychology courses
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There should be a "be particularly charismatic and good at relationships" major but psychology ain't even aiming at that
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Like many psych majors, I studied psych to try to figure out wtf was wrong with me
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there's a passage in Be Here Now where Ram Dass is talking about puking from anxiety before a lecture that he is giving as a world renowned psychologist and how he realized it was all such a fucking joke
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has talked about how when he was studying psychology his colleagues were actively uninterested in meditation which... just...?????????
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