Abnormal Psychology Class Analysis

At the very beginning of this class I thought what people tend to normally think about when they start a class, and that is that the class will consist of what it is called. For abnormal psychology, this is what I had thought as well. I thought this class was going to divulge into what makes certain disorders and mental health issues abnormal and learn how to tell whether these two things were abnormal. My feelings for this class were also no different, as usual I was really nervous because psychology tends to mess with my mind due to how many different symptoms there are and how a lot of these symptoms can be similar to one thing but end up belonging to another. With this class I also had to prepare myself for how much that I wasn’t going

I can say that in the future I personally will be very careful about what I say to others. I will not make assumptions that has the potential to hurt someone because of my lack of understanding on certain aspects of one’s life. For example, I will try not to look at someone in a hospital and automatically assume I know what type of mental health issue or disorder they have by appearances. To be frank I wouldn’t be able to know anything about this person because I had never talked to them about their symptoms or genetic background. This is what I will not do personally, even though it may be tough because we all tend to do what I have listed, I will try my hardest to not do these things in my day to day

I learned a lot about so many different things that can and probably will be brought up in my future classes, like the DSM-5 and criteria. How one day I may have to be able to use what I have found in the DSM-5’s criteria and apply it to a disorder or mental health issue, which is something I have already done for two of my other classes this semester. Anything is possible so I would just need to be prepared for it but this class has helped me so I can continue my academic path and be