Copied this from my MySpace. Some of it was "in the moment" feelings, but most holds true to my common thoughts on the matter.
Personally, I think the hardest thing about psychology is judging what can really be considered valid. There are so many things out there that have been made proven by scientists. However, much of psychology lies within the perception of the person who is orchestrating the study on the given individual. In all actuality, psychology is really only an idea, that has been agreed upon and accepted by a larger part of the society, than those facts that have been strewn down as mere ideas.
I think that my psychology on the word "sorry" and its common misuse and reasoning for such, may be accepted by some, but dismissed by others. Possibly, because such a large part of the science is based on perception. So, my perception is that which is based on the area in which I live and the events which I have experienced. Even though, when I speak of the word and its use, I speak with as little prejudice on the idea as possible, it does not ensure that the reader to that idea doesn't portray their own opinions and prejudice on that same issue. So there comes, perhaps, one of the greatest reasons that psychology is such a complex and interesting science.
I think the "proven" ideas are not what they are just because they have been "proven", but because they are accepted by a wider audience, and possibly appeal to the larger audience (society), therefore, making them harder to dismiss. I feel that no matter what idea you can present in psychology, you will always find someone to disagree with it.
Furthermore, I say "proven" because, no matter how hard you try, there is no human psychology that can be without a doubt proven. I think it is because of the precarious thing we call the brain. At any point in time it may vary from previous habits, making it "ever-changing". It is completely possible for someone to develop mental illness and in turn, I feel that it is completely possible for mental illness to be reversed. Like many things in life, however, I think that it is the same story... it is much easier to ruin something than to make it right again.
The human brain is capable of so many astounding things. Why not the reversal of mental illness? On a physical level, the chemical balance within a brain can change through time, diet, and many other variants. But, the brain controls all these things, and if someone could control these things, would they be able to better stable the situation if they knew how to do it? It has been said that humans use a much smaller portion of their brain than what is available to them.
So if those other portions were active, would we gain that superior control? Perhaps we can look elsewhere. Dogs for example. Dogs, like humans, can also develop mental illness. But dogs, usually, can also FIX this illness (with help from their counterparts) through corrective training and animal psychology. Is it possible that by similar methods, humans can fix this as well?
Well, although the thought does generally incorporate a laugh when I imagine it, there are a large number of people taking medications and doing all known things by doctors to try and solve modern mental illness. But to this day, I do not know of anyone (personally) that has overcome an illness that has been categorized as either genetic (for obvious reasons, that if you don't know how it happened, you can't fix or deal with it), or even cause by a traumatic experience within their lives.
I think in the future it will be possible for humans to overcome these current debilitating illness' that are now so wide spread, but at the moment, I don't see the resources or energy being put forth to examine the prospects of it.
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