I jumped into Psychology in college because of my girlfriend's breakdown after seeing her boyfriend having sex with her mom. That was the last thing my girlfriend remembered her brain blacked out
till she came back in a fetal position at her sisters middle school not
knowing how she got there. I thought it was cool that the brain can shutoff to save itself.
In the 90's I was in love with a marred lady with husband issues he was pushing the divorce at the time she didn't want to divorce him. He got her till she had a breakdown. So I ended up going home looking at my Psychology class book notes. "A breakdown is because you have lost something not that you have gained." What did she lose, her husband, gained me. So I had to show her the value of me to her. The 2000's thing in Psychology "Show her the building." So I ended up buying her a big bottle of Elmer's glue to glue her together, it made sense at the time. https://walmartramen.blogspot.com/2017/09/where-have-i-been-mirror-mirror-on-rocks.html
The point of that is your real education starts after your education. Graduating from college does not mean you are smart. I was over my ability I never been married in that point in my life in love with a married woman with their issues. Learn from life, get out in life and learn.
Also a married lady acting badly accidentally ran me over in her car in a abandoned park. Where I got on my knees to her being my foot hurt being she ran over it so I put it on the cold ground. She saw me on my knees and thought she killed me. She was scared but I was patting my heart at her begging her to come back. She smiled like a hyena sweet! But she made a right turn with me wanting a U-turn. I ended up working with her in the same building. But things crashed and she took off leaving us in her dust Me to "Pick Up the Pieces!"
But all those things that happened added to my college education it was something I was looking to be in as a Dark therapist, Counseling the hard cases. That is my background on that road!
Whatever the issue is in real life in hard cases you can't fix the hard case the damage is done you aim to for the hard case to be more well adjusted. Abused children are mental ill adults mostly on how bad it was. So you work on adjusting the person with the issue. Knowledge is needed like to say what is common for that illness many are the same like you and you are not the only one with the issues. Know it is common and you need to adjust take the first step.
Not from me but in class the professor talked, just talked about a psychopathic woman having a threesome! Well the point was she will not be able to control it too many data points in the matrix nor would she want to leave it so her behavior would be neutralized. At least if they all stay together. if things breaks down the behavior could go back.
Or the point like walking into the room hitting the patient like if Hannibal Lecter with a big fish in the face saying to him get your act together this is your last chance. Walking out before he could respond giving him time to think about it. Later the other therapist would start the therapy. That is a hard case! But you know Hannibal Lecter would be not curable or able to be well adjusted it's just a point!
