<p>Does Emory help out people with psychological issues? I have paranoid personality disorder (<a href="http://www.minddisorders.com/Ob-Ps/Paranoid-personality-disorder.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.minddisorders.com/Ob-Ps/Paranoid-personality-disorder.html</a>) which will make it difficult for me to work in groups and I'm afraid that my grades and teacher recommendations will suffer because of that. I also have generalized anxiety disorder (<a href="http://psychcentral.com/disorders/sx24.htm%5B/url%5D">http://psychcentral.com/disorders/sx24.htm</a>) and suffer from depression. Will Emory have psychologists/psychiatrists who can counsel me?</p>
<p>I want to meet you, Steven. :)</p>
<p>I want to be a psychiatrist so much. I guess it’s because I’m rather weird, so I can relate to others who are not mentally normal as well.</p>
<p>I used to have dysthymia for years, so I somewhat know what it’s like to have depression.</p>
<p>Sorry that this post has no substance in answering your questions. I just felt like commenting.</p>
<p>I’m sure we will meet in junior year (but not realize it lol) because I want to be a clinical psychologist. What draws me to the career is that my sister has cyclothymia and it was really hard growing up with her, so I want to help out people with disorders like that so I can make their family’s lives easier. I would be interested in psychiatry, but I suck at physics so getting into a MD or DO program would be unrealistic:(</p>
<p>I did some snooping around Emory’s website, so if any future prospective Emory students have the same question, here is the link to their counseling center: [Emory</a> : Campus Life : Student Health and Counseling Services](<a href=“Error 404 | Emory University | Atlanta GA”>Error 404 | Emory University | Atlanta GA)</p>
<p>Ok reading about your condition raises so many red flags for a prospective Emory student. I came to Emory with mild SAD, but it became much worse at Emory because so many kids here are so awkward that it just made interacting almost unbearably uncomfortable. I basically withdrew myself from everything and everyone by sophomore year, which of course translated into depression that continued to worsen despite therapy and counseling. But you’re coming INTO Emory with depression, which I’m guessing was brought on by your PPD. I don’t wanna be presumptious because I’m sure everyone reacts differently to this kind of environment, for instance you might thrive around awkward kids–I will say there’s very little pressure to do anything outside your comfort zone–but it seems like Emory could really aggravate your mental health even more than mine.</p>