Psychology can be applied to everyday life in many ways. The three main ways Psychology applies to my life is through motivation and emotion, Stress and health and Psychological therapies. These topics of psychology are the ones that best describe my life. When most people think of psychology they think of therapists and psychological disorders. Psychology is much more than that and applies to everyone’s life in some form. The first way that Psychology applies to my life is the Motivation and Emotion part of it.
Motivation is what drives you to conduct some type of activity. For example if someone is thirsty then they have to get up go somewhere to get a drink. Being thirsty is what motivated the individual to get a drink. Emotion is your feelings toward something that is presented to you. This could range from emotion toward a person to a possible life threatening situation. The way that Motivation and Emotion are linked is Motivation is what you need to conduct an action and how you feel about that action would be where emotion comes in.
Throughout my life I have had very little motivation toward school. School was always to easy and never really challenged me. In High School I never studied for a test and would always get a very good grade on them. However when I came to college all of that changed. When I starting going to college classes I retained my old habits from High school; I never studied, never completed homework, and I would procrastinate big projects to the last possible minute. I learned very quickly that college is on a completely different level than High school.
My feelings toward school completely changed it presented a challenge which gave me motivation to do good in school. My feelings for school also completely changed I no longer dreaded going to school and actually enjoyed going. My motivation and emotion toward school changed when I made the transition from High school to College level courses. This is How the Motivation and Emotion components of Psychology apply to my life. The next way that psychology applies to my life is through Stress and health. Stress is the way we feel and respond to something this is challenging or presents a danger to us.
An example of this would be if you need over a 90% on a final to keep an A in the class you would respond by being anxious and might not sleep the night before the test this is stress. The way stress relates to health, the current state of our body, is stress can increase heart rate and blood pressure and many other aspects of our health. Also over a long period of time someone under massive amounts of stress could eventually collapse under the pressure and stop functioning. About one year ago I was in a really bad car accident I flipped a full size truck about 4 or 5 times going about 50 miles per hour down the road.
I was about 30 minutes from any town and once I called for help I waited for 40 minutes for anyone to get there to help me and it took close to an hour for the ambulance to arrive. While I was waiting there all I had on my mind was I was going to die. My left eye was completely swollen shut and my right arm had about a 6 inch gash and was bleeding everywhere. The amount of stress I was under was immense my breathes were shallow and quick and had to wait in that state for over a half a hour. Even after I was out of the hospital the levels of stress were very high.
I could very little by myself my arm and face were stitched up and had plastic surgery to my face so I was in a lot of pain. I felt completely helpless not only was my physical health terrible my emotional health was very bad. Also my body would never look the same with cause even more stress. Because of the physical and emotional stress I was under from the wreck it effected both my physical and emotional health as well. That is how stress and health relate to to my life. The last way that psychology applies to my life is through Psychological therapies.
The goal of physiological therapies is to help people function in everyday life more efficiently. Therapies are helpful for virtually anyone. Even if you do not have a Psychological problem having a therapist you can trust and talk to can be very helpful for anyone. When I was younger I was very irritable and stressed out all the time. I always felt like I was not as good as everyone else but the way I acted it seemed that I thought I was better than everyone else. Around the time of this I was on a Select baseball team and the coach was very hard on us. We would practice weekday fter school for three hours. This was very stressful and mad me not have time for anything else this is what contributed to most of the stress I was under. I then went to see a Therapist which as a kid I thought was not going to help. Also I did not want my friends to know I was going to a therapist because I was afraid they would make fun of me. However, once I started going to meet with him occasionally I could talk about anything and I felt like I could trust him with whatever I said. Eventually I got to the point to where I actually looked forward to going to see him.
I believe that if I had not gone to see this therapist I would have turned out a lot differently that I am today. He helped me to understand everything that was happening around me and to deal with it accordingly. Having someone to talk to and that you can trust is very important and helped me to cope with everything that was going on in my life at the time. Psychological Therapy has helped me and is the aspect of psychology that has helped me the most in my life. Psychology can be applied to everyone’s life in some way it is more than just therapy.
Motivation and Emotion is one way Psychology applies to my life. The next way is the stress and health portion of psychology. The last way and most influential part of psychology in my life is through Psychological therapy. Psychology has many different parts to it and if you look deep enough anyone’s life can be applied to it. In studying psychology you learn a lot about about the way feelings and emotions work. If you take the time to think about how Psychology applies to everyday life you will learn that most of everything that goes on in the world in some way relates back to Psychology.
