Potential Career Routes
Back in college I studied Psychology and thoroughly enjoyed learning about the subject. It really opened my mind up about the way people are. When I lost my mum I was signed up to counselling. It did help to go and talk to someone about my life without her, the changes at home and at school. However sometimes I felt the couldn't understand how I felt... how could they understand how I felt unless they'd been through it? Unless they never mentioned to me about their own losses, I was difficult to put into words how I felt to someone who had never experienced it. That made me consider myself as a support worker, someone for young children or adults to speak to about situations like my own. I didn't just lose a mum, I lost a lot of family, I gained a step family which was difficult and didn't enjoy school. Having that experience I feel I could benefit in this area and be able to help someone like myself because I have been through it. Even though I am unsure about my...
