Actually I think therapists had to have suffered something in order to understand us.

If they don't they would if they saw me as a client for a while :-)

Therapists are people just like us. Chemical imbalance is not choosey. It does go around giving people interviews to see if they qualify. Also, listening to the woes of patients 40 or more hours a week would wear down a saint. I hope you decide to verger into the field. Do some research. Get a job at a hospital maybe house keeping and ask to work on the psyche ward. Find out if truly would like to do the work in the field.

RICHARD

yeah its true, would you want advice from someone who simply cant understand you, or has no idea how you feel?? youve got to have had some "life expirences"

Personally I hate text book therapists, they look lost half the time. GO for it.

My brother in law went to a see a psychiatrist and the very next day, the doc checked himself into a psych ward... we thought that was funny. (As if it was my BIL's fault.)

I did notice when I was in college, most of the psych majors had something they were personally dealing with. Go for your dreams, do what you want.

I seem to remembers some statistical survey that says they tend to have more emotional problems than almost any other profession.