Clinical Psychology and The Call to Action

I feel as if my future career in Phychology may be somewhat limited in what I can do to change the world, considering I wouldn’t be very involved in dirctly doing anything that would be beneficial to the nation’s infrastructure, but whenever there are people, there are problems with their minds and behavior.
Although I Don’t see myself as being very helpful in a direct way, statistics say that half of all people suffer from a maladaptive disorder at some point in their lives. That means that half of all of the people that will have a more direct impact can use my help in living better and more happy lives. The help I would be giving could range from a veteran suffering from PTSD, to a man who works on roads that is going through major depression and alcohol abuse. The possibilitiies in terms of the kinds of patients that I would be dealing with are immense, and although there are no direct ways of helping other than working for a large corporation or the government itself, the help I would be giving on the sidelines should be more than sufficient in changing the world just as much as anyone else.
The world as a whole has come to depend on Phychologists as much as other doctors. Over the past ten years, psychologists have discovered ninety percent of all we know about the brain. With information flying at us so fast, it will be hard to find things that wouldn’t help the world as a whole, and even though I don’t see myself working in a laboratory running tests as my career, I will be one of those who actually puts that knowledge into practice. Seeing lives change due to scientific advancement is something that would make me immensely proud, and is why most, if not all clinical Psychologists do what they do at all.
When I watched the State of the union address last week, it made me think of who I was in a more sociological way. I saw myself and how I may relate to others in the years to come as well as putting a sense of great national pride in me, an emotion I don’t normally feel. I wanted to be a psychologist for the sake of the entire nation and not just for my own happiness, and I believe that is the mentality President Obama was attempting to convey.