What are some good career in mental health to do?

Marvella Benward: I have no idea what you are saying. Brain Malfunction? You need to read facts. Bipolar disorder is a hormone/chemical imbalance in the brain. I suffer from bipolar and depression and i need medication to help the chemical imbalance. It's nothing different than taking medication for high blood pressure or other problems. I am a Christian and i love god. But that does not mean i can't also face the fact that humans are not perfect and our bodies often have medical problems that we need to take care of. There is no problem in loving god and still being intelligent towards medical disorders....Show more

Vickie Sterbenz: Health psychology! I started college planning to do psychiatry but after taking classes and meeting with med school students, I realized that MDs aren't concerned with making people stronger and preventing serious complications. I am now in the process of applying to graduate schools to get a Ph.D. in Health Psychology. It's a relati! vely new field just waiting for people to start doing research and teaching patients new coping strategies. Look up some programs and you'll see it's a great combination of traditional medicine and mental health strategies....Show more

Shamika Schools: i would be a couples therapist or a sex therapist...i like helping people work out problems with eachother

Tricia Dossous: From these two - psychology.There's indeed a difference. Psychologists are not doctors from medical viewpoint and can't prescribe you pills, perform a brain surgery or give you an electroshock. If they think you should take pills, they should send you to a psychiatrist. Psychiatrist is a doctor from medical viewpoint and can give you pills, electroshock or brain surgery which are the only methods psychiatry uses. Brain surgeries like prefrontal lobotomy found its place in horror movies where it belongs and is disappearing from psychiatry. Electroshocks are still being given to the people desp! ite no results and serious damage caused to the patients. Mode! rn psychiatry focuses on drugs. Psychiatrists prescribed LSD and ecstasy as medicine in the past and their modern drugs are said to be even more dangerous. Some psychiatrists however may be using alternative methods or psychology but that is not psychiatry. Psychiatry has been using 1) brain surgeries 2) shocks (not only electroshocks but also insulin shocks) 3) drugs. Psychology was always more about talking to you, listening to you and explaining things for you and giving you advices what you should do. However, psychology is indeed a mixture of different theories written by different authors - there is really no ONE psychology. Psychologists and Psychiatrists didn’t like each other in the beginning due to completely different approach which is more than obvious but as time passed they learned to get along somehow.I personally think that the interesting part of psychology is HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvySe_GFwE4