Psychology Experience: Feeling down in the dumps

Hello everyone!

Been a while but that’s really down to me enjoying my last weeks in my student house, moving belongings around, grappling with my new violin and unfortunate news. Psychology feels precarious as it is without more disappointment as you try to navigate a potential career path (if there even is to be one). As much as I love my subject, you can’t help but feel as if you don’t know where you’re going or how to get to your final destination.

Recently, I was awaiting Appropriate Adult training by hanging around my university city. I wanted to check the location so I emailed only to be told the two dates were cancelled and nothing has really been said to me about new dates. I’m worried I won’t be able to make new ones now I’m back at home. It feels like a setback as this is one of my key opportunities I was excited for to give me a leg up in future roles – along with me learning to drive after University. It has left me feeling a little lost and even more low than I was already feeling to leave Uni.

However! I will say with luck I hope to practice the violin and do a huge tidy up in my room. Should be somewhat satisfying. The house makes me feel a little glum currently as it is kind of messy and my family is a little too chaotic (rooms are being worked on right now). Despite that, it’d be nice to see some friends, do some groundwork for my dissertation and hopefully prep myself to be a peer mentor in September 🙂

Feel free to drop me a message through my email psychwip@gmail.com or even if it’s more you maybe my Tumblr account Psychologistwip. Happy to reply and advise (I regularly check my emails trust me, my phone is glued to my hand).

Thank you for reading,

-Psychwip

Sorry for the Quietness

My lounge at home is quiet and dark at the moment but it’s cosy. I’m revising right now for my exam next Monday, hoping to finish my blog posts in the making and finally work on developing my blog site aesthetically. I assume it’s quiet on here due to lack of reach and content so I need to kick-start this right 😀

It’s real dark I know… but it is the evening now and I didn’t want to put all the lights on. This page focuses on namely the evolution of cognition.

I’ll be operational soon, just this exam really important to do well in, I really enjoy evolutionary psychology so it’s not too bad to go over again.

I’ll be back with a post about binge drinking (I think)! It’s been on my mind a lot with my research proposal practice and especially considering my experiences as a student (namely freshers week and the like). So going to hopefully finish the draft I have already started.

I’ll be posting as soon as I can *shy wave*

-Psychologistwip

Am I a Workaholic?

Afternoon guys! (It is for me, might not be for you 😁)

I said I was going to leave this until after New year’s day but nope.. I want to leave more content on here. Want to hear about people’s experiences of working hard to reach a goal and how people react to that? I know there’s a lot of hard working students on Tumblr just from stumbling upon the fascinating ‘studyblr’ community or advice pasted all over The Student Room… so I know some people must relate to how I feel about my studying.

This is something I’ve wanted to explore for a while since I’m not sure whether I am or if I’m just listening to other people too much… since I’m aware we look to others to form beliefs about ourselves. I do have friends who tell me I need to relax more but I’m not sure whether it’s just me striving for the best grades and wanting to better myself.

Now I understand just because you want to do well it doesn’t mean you should shut people out or limit fun because you’re thinking ‘I haven’t finished that essay yet. I need to work on it before I watch more [insert netflix show, anime, breaking bad here].’ But the thing is, I do spend time playing games, sitting around gossiping and watching films with housemates/ uni friends. I’m starting to wonder if me being an introvert however makes people jump to the conclusion that I just sit in my room and work. Because trust me. I do not. I love to talk about my studies because I adore psychology, and by extension I always talk about my assignments.

SO – am I really a workaholic or just immensely passionate about anything psychology related.. even if that is me talking about my attraction essay for the millionth time?

Well I’ll say it – I enjoy being busy really.

I shall admit, sometimes I do struggle to switch off. I feel like recently however I’ve had little choice but to keep thinking about work. I had a presentation then 3 things are due in the same week in January and I wanted them done to enjoy my holiday more but guess what? I had an exam too, so I read over my revision cards for my Evolutionary Psychology exam and have attempted to do a lot of my research proposal about self esteem in relation to peer pressured binge drinking (I think I could relate to it on a level… Not a huge drinker but always end up thinking I’m a stick in the mud).

So it is possible that I find myself compelled to do work… people say I’m stressed but honestly? Every now and then I feel at home sitting down and reading through articles and formulating my piece… I get stressed when I know in about a week I’ve not sat down and inputted into my work in any form because my friends been keeping me busy. I like my alone time, sitting and doing work is quite comforting considering I’ve spent years being the same way really.. studying alone at home.

Maybe I should be relaxing more considering if I do become a psychologist I’ll need to learn to shut it off when I’m at home. But it seems a bit hard wired in at the moment to just shut off my brain that honestly never shuts up.

That’s all I have to say really :3

How do you guys feel about your studies/work? Do you have friends around you that say you work too hard? Would you say it is tough to break out of old habits?

-Psychologistwip x

P. S. – I couldn’t help but think of Computer Boy by Poppy when I was writing this… People really love to say to me I study too much but I promise them I’m not literally in love with my laptop screen :3

Bear with me

On holiday at the moment, but I’m setting up this blog since I think an online presence would be both healthy and useful for myself (it could potentially be for others – who knows!)

It’ll hopefully be finished visually after New Year as I’ll be back at home and will have my assignments done. Want to aim for a post a week but I can hope for more than that if I come across interesting topics or want to talk about my University experiences.

More to come,

-Psychologistwip ^_^