"What's wrong with studying psychology because you want to help people?" Because you'll find out you can't help them, not really. We're not able to help anyone. We won't end their pain. We can only talk to them, try to help them see things through another perspective and hope they can somehow be strong enough to be able to help themselves and try to live with their problems. We won't stop people suffering. We'll try to help them become strong enough to live with it.