BEING BETTER THAN MOST

I've come to discover that psychologists play a very vital role in enhancing a person's mental health. It's not easy to communicate with mentally challenged people (mentally challenged here doesn't mean madness per se, but those going through emotional and psychological crises). If you have ever suffered depression, you will better understand what it means to open up to someone trusting they will understand and provide the help required for you to phase through. Now Imagine how addicts, or those battling low esteem, or even traumas and PSTDs would relate with people. Yet psychologists have a way of getting through to these people, opening up their mental wounds, and healing wounds people can not see.

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I am not a psychologist, but I grew up with one in the person of my mother. I haven't seen any psychological ailment that was too much for her, and even when she is going through worse situations, she still ends up solving people's psychological problems. I guess I would say it's a trait inherited from her, having not been trained professionally in the art of psychological science like she was trained and fully certified, I find it quite easy to understand psychological crises and proffer solutions even when the people in question don't know they are having a psychological breakdown. Now one might be thinking how would a person be having a psychological breakdown and not know… well a lot of people going through psychological crises don't even know what it is they are going through, they just act as it comes until they might have made it a habit thinking it's who they are.

Self-realization is the first step to take in solving a psychological crisis, after which acceptance follows before figuring out ways to tackle whatever it is the person in question is going through. Self-realization is realizing who you are currently and who you want to be, acceptance is standing up to the occasion of what you have realized and using it as a weapon and motivation to work your way into what you want to be. How do I know all this? If you follow up with my posts, you will find out that I have written about how popular I was in school, this is simply because I met a lot of students, teenagers especially who were going through one psychological crisis or another.

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Not to brag, but I'm really good at connecting with people psychologically. An example of many such people was the girl I mentioned in one of my posts that I stood up for when she was almost raped. That lady had a very ugly past that had messed her up psychologically, and we had gone a great deal in healing her up when that experience occurred. But then again doing this is hard, especially because at the early stage most of these persons tend to draw too attached, and you can't blame them as they have finally seen a confidant who gives them hope of coming out. But when many of them are ladies, it's not easy handling the situation as they tend to catch feelings at the initial stage. But to keep my reputation clean I would have to be careful in my dealings with them.

Sometimes I want to ask my mum how she does it and not get emotionally attached to her patients because that's the hardest part of the job. But I think it is where the training comes in handy which I have not been privileged to have because I have been far away from home for a very long time. But there is the good side of these, and that is the respect and honor these people tend to give me for impacting their lives positively. Not to brag again, but I love it, and I think I deserve it as reward enough for what I do. If there's one thing I have learned from my mother is that the reverence and satisfaction I get from doing this is far greater than any monetary value anyone can give. Freely have I received this gift, and Freely will I give it.

THIS IS MY RESPONSE TO THE HIVE NAIJA'S PROMPT FOR THE WEEK