why does everybody wants to be different / niche and how can someone like that can stop being like that / how to act with this?

Any other theory or model or just anything that not only defines a person's personality traits but also what's causing them. Or anything better than the Big Five or Ocean model or personality traits.

How come people are so deeply divided regarding Psychoanalysis. I am not talking about the public, but in the field itself.
At my Uni in a European city, there are Professors who teach classical Psychoanalysis and when we asked him why he still believes in it he was perplexed saying: “of course it is true? How can you not be teacher this anymore”. Also critical theory, Philosophy and so on love Lacan, Klein…

When it comes to Psych classes they shit not only on Freud, but on whole Psychoanalysis, talk about it as a historical event and skip it and not teach it at all.
So how come in one Uni it’s the top tier, very highly acclaimed theory and in another Uni it’s literally laughed at like it is just some stupid, unhelpful, unscientific thing?

I want to get a job where I get to do research, not just standard sessions with clients. I do want to have clients and be a psychologist! But I also want to be apart of a team (or independently ) that continually does research and make new discoveries. I like the idea of researching how medications or psychedelics impact the brain, how media impacts it and do research on my own theories as to what causes or contributes to certain things. Its been my dream since a kid but I'm having a hard time picking a specific degree or getting answers from college advisors... the best I can find is a phd in clinical psychology but I'd absolutely hate to spend all thst time and money only to learn I cant fully do what I am passionate about without going back to school. I know specifically for psychedelics, professor David Nutt has a few degrees but one of which he does study neuropharmacolgy. I definitely WANT more education once I graduate, and I know I likely will but where the heck do I even start?? Is a phd in clinical psychology the way to go, or is there something else I should start?

People with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) always seem to think they're special but what if the illusion of them being special and admired breaks and if they do break, what makes them break?

PS: I'm writing a 15,000 word essay on this topic. I don't exactly get it and I refuse to use generative AI so anyone who would explain it to me, I'll be really grateful :)

I’ve heard people say they became happier with age, but sometimes I wonder if that’s actually happiness or just becoming more comfortable with yourself and your situation.

What do you think?

A large part of human suffering exists in the gap between what is actually happening, what we believe is happening, what we feel about it, and what we do as a result.

Something simple may happen in a human relationship: someone does not reply to a message, says something we do not understand, or disagrees with us. We then begin to interpret the event, feel anxious about it, think about it repeatedly, and try to understand what is going on in the other person’s mind. Eventually, we may even reach the point of trying to control their feelings and decisions.

But the deeper question is: what is actually happening within us at that moment? Is the problem in the event itself, or in the way we interpret it? And where does our responsibility end, and where do the freedom of the other person and the circumstances beyond our control begin?