School is Cool

I've been thinking a lot about going to back to school. I started to fill out a FAFSA. I pretty much always knew I could never graduate so I think thats why I had a hard time at Dixie. I couldn't bring myself to work hard towards something that could never happen. But now I have been thinking too much again. I am SO fortunate to me a mother and be happily married and be able to stay home with my son, but I can't help but wonder if this is it? I have always always wanted to be a psychologist but I knew there was too much school involved and that I was too stupid to make it through. So while some things never change, the one thing that has is the fact that I would like to learn more, even if I can't get a degree. Even when I was little I remember sitting in front of my house in FL and two of my friends came over because they were arguing about their plastic stick on ear-rings and so I helped them solve their problem. Sounds silly, but I've always wanted to help people sort out crap that's going on in their heads. Then as I got older, friends would come to me with more serious problems and I SO wanted to help them, but I didn't have any extra knowledge then they had except that I was OUTside their heads which makes a difference. Does that even make sense? Maybe part of it is because I really thought I was crazy for a time. I won't go into details, but the more I learned about the brain and personalities (disordered or otherwise) the more I wanted to keep learning. It helped me be a little more ok with myself. So while I may never become a psychologist or even a counselor for that matter, I would like to learn the tools that could help people work out issues that they can't seem to work on themselves, and not THREATEN to send them to an institution if they don't change their behavior (as one of my counselors did to me). If you are a girl or have girls, can I just recommend that you read Reviving Ophelia?