Being A Mental Health Professional Requires Being Realistic

If you have the desire to help those with mental illness and want to become a mental health worker or mental health professional, having a positive attitude about your ability to help others is beneficial.

But be realistic.

Some people who enter the mental health field think they're going to go out and save the world.  They have a lot of unrealistic goals.  But then once they start trying to help those with mental illness, reality slaps them across the face.  They find out the hard way that those goals aren't going to happen.

So if you want to help others with mental health issues, be realistic.  If you can't accept the fact that you must be realistic, then maybe the mental health field is not for you.