Do I have anything new to say? No.
Do I have anything particularly interesting to restate? No.
What I have though is an honest confession of my thoughts at this very moment.
Confusion is mostly what I feel these days. One minute I can be extremely happy, while the next complete confusion.
Anyways...having been a student of psychology for the pasy 4 years, I have definitely learned that nothing in this world is concrete. This is especially true when it comes to matters of the mind.
If everything is a matter of perspective, why do we even bother doing "empirical" research in psychology?
How can we measure happiness, sadness, love, faith etc. It is un-do-able! Self-reports are a total waste of time as they are all subjective. There is no way to collaborate all these subjective self-views into something comprehensive. Why do we keep doing it? Why do we keep handing out those...on a scale of 1 to 5...questionaires? What's a 1 to me...could very well be a 3 for you.
What's the point of trying to categorize everything...when society is constantly changing? It's a waste of paper if you ask me. Every so often a new version of the psychological diagnostic manual is published. Everyone now has to go get the new manual coz the old one just isn't "correct" anymore. And who is to determine what's correct or not? The changes are supposedly based on new "research" information. What research?? Are we really to think that we...the human mind...is capable of figuring everything out? That by strictly following our research guidelines...we are unraveling the secrets of the mind?
As many people know, homosexuality was at one time viewed as a mental illness. Is it really? What kind of "research" could have been done to disprove that claim? Even if there was research done on that issue, how valid are the findings? How did they come to now say that homosexuality isn't an illness? If the entire community of "psychological experts" are to be taken seriously, there has to be a solid foundation to their claims. They simply cannot change the criterias for diagnosis as is convenient for society at a given time. What's even funnier is that there is so much red tape around getting anything done that...whatever we do publish has probably been sensored to ensure its "political correctness."
So after spending a few years being exposed to the literature on the study of the mind and human behaviour, I must say that in my opinion, we are not even close to scratching the surface of the entire picture.
We may think many things, we may guess many things...but we know nothing.
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