Friday Coffee and Chat -- 3rd October 2025

cool 🙂 i'll stick around @Jynx

Hi @Shaz51 @Blackcloud @Jynx @NightFury @MissGremlin and everyone else, Happy Friday!

I'm having Cambodian for dinner again 🤗

I'm taking my parents down the peninsula for a walk tomorrow.

I'm sad to reach the last few days of leave from work, yet glad to have had it.

How are you all?

@Jynx great I'll stick around. Just finished dinner but i'm back now.

@Blackcloud oh true!! How are you feeling about the possibility of ADHD?

I really enjoyed my degree! I had to switch to face-to-face learning cos there was a lot of prac - soooo many practice counselling sessions lol - and felt that the online-only course wasn't gonna cut it. That's me though.

It seemed to have a much larger focus on the clinical skills and how to work with clients as opposed to going into like, the more biology/researchy stuff like I did when I minored in psych in my first degree. Like you won't be learning about the rods and cones of the eye, more like the bio-psycho-social model.

Not to say you wouldn't study that stuff in a psych degree, I know there's decent overlap. I think what you choose to study might depend on what sort of work you want to do. I am definitely not a knowledgeable person on what careers require what degrees tho, just FYI 😅

Hi @Spirit_Healer i'm ok but had an up and down week, trying to stay positive.

sorry to hear about your leave days ending, I hope you had a good break?

@Moose123 yippee!!

How's your Friday been? Up to much tonight?

@Spirit_Healer aww peninsula walk sounds so nice!! Hope the weather is what you want 😋

@Jynx I had a good morning walk connecting with nature.

At 10am I had a SMART Recovery meeting which is helping me with my sobriety and mental health.

Now connecting here with you nice people. 🙂

@Jynx If I do get the actual diagnosis of ADHD, then of course I'd be happy!! 😊

actually in this trimester I just did a unit where the content there covers all sorts of things including the rods and cones of an eye, sensations, perceptions, etc. etc. you name it. it's all centred around the brain and behaviour. I'm also not a fan of the biology/scientific/research stuff either otherwise I would go crazy if I ever have to keep dealing with that sort of thing 😂 I also didn't think psychology was gonna involve a lot of theory/scientific and some statistics stuff, as well as all of its core units having exams. Well I'm gonna have an exam coming up next Friday and honestly I can't wait till I can just get it over and done with. I've been crashing out about the exam like almost daily for....like i think 2-ish weeks now.

yeah, I can see why the face to face learning would be better in that sense, me personally I prefer it when everything's online as opposed to face to face for personal reasons. So I'm glad that the uni I'm thinking of transferring to from my current uni has distance/online learning for all of their bachelor degrees.

I'm also doing online learning through my current uni that i'm enrolled at as well but the scholarships my current uni has available none of them match with my circumstances that fit their criteria, so with the scholarship that i've found at this new uni i'm thinking of transferring to, their criteria seems to fit with my circumstances and i can't wait to apply it (and also applying for the degree there too) if I do!

Walk sounds good @Spirit_Healer

Hello @Blackcloud , @Moose123 😊

Hello @Spirit_Healer, hope you enjoy your dinner.

A walk on the peninsula sounds great, hope everyone has a good time ☺️.

I'm doing ok.