Psychology is pointless without Spirituality.

Before I begin, I need to state that this isn’t about every single Psychologist. There are many who provide different types of therapy that are effective and do help the client. This is referring to the ‘general’ field of Psychology.

I’m currently in my final year of a double degree in Psychology and Counselling at a University in Perth, W.A.
When I was younger, I had this ability to understand people on a deep level without them even needing to explain themselves. It was some sort of a “knowing” (aka intuition in Spirituality).

Now as I progress toward the end of my degree, I have also progressed in my own spiritual journey and come to the realisation of how Psychology is completely pointless.

I am also currently completing a Reiki healing course.

I can go into so much detail as to why I wouldn’t recommend a “Psychologist” or therapy based around Psychology as a method to truly helping someone. Don’t take this the wrong way, I have a lot of respect for the field and I do think many Psychologists have provided an amazing platform for future therapists to build on.

So here is me building on why Psychology/ visiting a Psychologist, is almost pointless.

Regardless of the ridiculous amount of money you’re going to be paying, you’ll find that all a therapist will really do is give you either a prescription for whatever mental health condition they’ve diagnosed you with. Alternatively, regarding the more “counselling” type therapy – these therapists will pretty much just give you an understanding (if even that) of why you’re feeling how you’re feeling.

You may feel better by trying to connect the dots… the dots that will lead you straight back to your childhood wounds. So now, we can blame mummy and daddy for the fact that we get ourselves into certain messy situations. Awesome. Now what?

Now if you’re looking for perspective or even a rough guideline with some action steps to move forward, by all means, a Psychologist is great. But hey, so is Google.

Regardless of whether you’re reading this and agree with me or not, can you understand how utterly pointless it is to revisit your childhood when it doesn’t actually change your current situation? If anything, I know of a few people who have ended up building resentment on certain figures in their childhood due to their current pain/ trauma/ issues. And resentment isn’t good for your soul.

I won’t go into the Spiritual reasons in this post – because there’s way too many to be able to summarise into this post – but what Spiritual concepts do, is help you understand yourself in a much deeper level. Although certain Psychology concepts do as well – don’t get me wrong I’m not saying the entire field is pointless – Psychologists are trained to separate their own personal life and emotions separate from the client. Yes it’s wonderful to remain professional, but if you want to truly help someone, empathy is necessary.

I don’t know if it’s just me or if people in the Psych field have ever felt almost as though it’s wrong to be keeping emotions out of the process.

There are people who have heavy mental health issues; some depressed, even suicidal – and to sit there and simply ‘listen’ without being able to show that you even care (because that’s still an emotion)… is almost dehumanising.

Now I know this may not seem too deep. I mean hey, it’s good money at the end of the day right?

The closer I get to the end of my degree – the more I realise it’s pointless. But people will refuuuuuuseeeee to give any spiritual concepts a second thought. Maybe that’s why the world is in the state that it’s in? I dunno, I haven’t got all the answers but there’s some food for thought.

I’m still glad I did it. Because if I didn’t, I might actually believe it’d be effective.

Because just like anything in life, we don’t realise how pointless it is until we’re at the very end. Just like my previous relationships… but I’ll take the lessons and keep it moving.

Just before I finish, another thing to consider is the fact that Psychologists looove diagnosing people with whatever ‘disorder’ they seem to have, based on the symptoms… which may be all well and good, but how about working towards a solution where we don’t need to medicate someone on a specific prescription medication for the rest of their lives?

Maybe discuss other solutions as to what they need to change in their lifestyle?

Like I dunno… “your husband is a jerk who clearly has no empathy or remorse. Have you considered leaving him?”
Not, “You’re showing symptoms of depression. Here’s a prescription”.

We live in a society that is training us not to care. A “try a pill to cure your inner struggles” mentality.

Anyway, I could be wrong. As I always say, it’s just my perspective.

If you’re wondering why I’m even completing my Psychology degree, it’s because I’m at the very end and well I’ve made it this far, right? I thought Psychology was interesting, and it is. It’s good to know. But if you’re the person seeking help/ healing, Psychology will do you more harm than good.

For example: “My ex is a narcissist”. Your Psychologist may have introduced you to the term and it may apply to your previous partner. The dynamics may start to make sense of the way a narcissist behaves, giving you perspective. But that mentality of labelling him/ her as a narcissist, will never let you heal, if all you’re going to do is go around calling him a narcissist to make yourself feel better about whatever you may have done too.

Now if you have enough empathy and compassion for someone, you’ll then be able to at least sleep well at night knowing why things are playing out the way they are and consider your actions also, instead of sounding so wounded and fragile every time someone asks you what’s wrong and you now have a million reasons on why you’re ex is a horrible person and it’s all because of how he’s a narcissist and you’re just pure light and love *cough cough*.

So yes, some of us have been dealt harsher cards in life than others (trust me, I’ve been there), but we’re not all angels. And if there is any change or progress we want to make in life, we need to be facing the deepest, darkest parts of our own shadow self. That is where personal mastery begins; THAT is true empowerment.

I don’t preach on anything I haven’t personally experienced myself. We’re also all different, so you could be reading my posts and perhaps even think I could be in need of a psychological diagnosis myself (just kidding).

Psychology and Spirituality both taught me to accept people are who they are, and they will choose to be open minded or they won’t. I’m not one of push my beliefs or opinions onto you, but I am one to share my beliefs and opinions and try to get you to understand why.

So if there’s anything you can take from this post – if you ever need true healing, seek spiritual healing.

Psychology is pointless without spirituality.

Thank you for reading.