What motivated me to study psychology?

I remember that since I was 12 years old I knew I wanted to study psychology because I was the girl that everybody used to talk their problems (so obviously I gave a lot of advices). I have always thought I’m a very empathic person so that was a good characteristic of me if I wanted to heard other people’s problems. What I didn’t realize was that Psychology isn’t only about listening and give advices, is also about biology, statistics, pathologies, complex human theories, etc.

Now that I’m studying psychology I feel great, I’ve learned a lot, even things I have never ever thought about… but when I started to know more I realized that my University don't give me all the knowledge I would like to have (for example, I love humanistic psychology but we had just one general course that talked about that).

I know a lot about theoretical psychology because it is important handle some concepts. I like how human beings try to understand some phenomena through theories and that’s why we have some theories such as attachment, human develop, emotions, etc.

But this discipline isn’t only about theories and studies; we have many ways to apply that knowledge. The different applications depend of the area where you are working. You can see the applications in the clinical area, working with a person o with a group of people, or in educational area, working with a whole school or in educational programs, or in neuroscience, etc.