My Name is Jackie and I have a blogging problem! haha! Actually, this is my first blog; I have been looking for an excuse to dabble in the art so I am very excited about the next six weeks and, who knows, maybe an addiction will ensue! I am in my final year of the Bachelor's Psychology Program at Tusculum but hope to go on to earn at least a Masters. Yea, I know... but I think all Psych majors are crazy!
So why did I choose psychology? When I declared my major, a large part of me was screaming “ Whoa! What are you doing?!?” but there has always been that draw to help people. But even that cliche draw was not enough to decide my educational fate; instead it was a very raw, personal experience which I choose to share to enlighten others:
Three years ago, my (then) six year old daughter was sexually assaulted by my (then) 19 year old nephew. Yes, she was a minor and he was an adult, and you know what? The DA still has not decided on her case...three years already! I digress. My daughter went through pure hell and is only just now beginning to return to some version of her old self. She still doesn't sleep or sit near a window, refuses to sleep in a room alone or go outside alone (even in broad daylight). While the stages of hate and coping that she has cycled through are normal, there has been very little (actually no) support for her father and I on how to help her. We have her in therapy, but there is no guidance on what we should expect or how to handle certain eccentricities. We have literally stumbled our way though the darkness of her healing process. I entered psychology to help change that. I do not want parents to have to feel like they are going though this healing process alone and while there are some resources available, they are not they readily available to the average person.
That's my story.
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