You're a cool guy.

Let's just presume that you are popular, have a girlfriend and work at the Airport. Now that you've got that in mind you're currently studying Social Sciences at Ahuntsic College and plan to go University. You come from an immigrant household and you have a lot of pressure to get far in your studies. You have one of your old buddies that tells you he found a way to become rich by trading through Forex, a foreign exchange market.

Choice 1 : Follow your friend advice

Choice 2 : Continue studying

I guess it was a pyramid scheme all along.

Congratulations on following your friend's footsteps. You had such an amazing path built for you. Look at you, sharing on your Instagram and Facebook how much money you aren't making. It's 2019, you aren't going to make it with Forex.

Choice 1 : Rewind time

Time to decide which University.

You're graduating soon and you need to find a good university to continue in your path to becoming a psychologist. The problem is, you need the one that is most decent for you.

Choice 1 : Go to UQAM but litterature

Choice 2 : Go to Harvard.

Choice 3 : Go to UQAM in Psychology

UQAM.

Didn't you say you were gonna study psychology?

Choice 1 : I was kidding about this program

Choice 2 : Rather work in a pyramid scheme than staying here.

You are in the heavy league now.

You were quite an amazing student in college. Now that you were accepted in such a grandiose university, you need to find a way to pay your studies.

Choice 1 : Work in a workshop far from school

Choice 2 : Ask your parents to pay.

Bad choice amigo.

That far away from home, your girlfriend breaks up with you because you were to busy for her, and she found some guy named Jerome in one of her classes. You become depressed and somehow fail your classes. It was due to happen anyway, you are studying in another country.

Choice 1 : Rewind time

Parents.

It is quite maddening for some people that your parents were willing to pay for your studies. Why do you think so? Probably because they had to give you most of their savings for you to go there. But now that you have so much money, what will you do?

Choice 1 : You are rich enjoy your time.

Choice 2 : Keep studying and start working.

Crash.

Working in that market is actually pretty hard. You need to have knowledge of how trading works. It was inevitable and thus you lost everything you had.

Choice 1 : Start from the beginning

Having a good time.

It is important to have a good time from time to time. Why not enjoy your college life, by simply enjoy the simple pleasures. You start meeting up lots of cool people, you have new friends and you start to become who you once were. You've reached the top of the world and met plenty of amazing young folks. Life is great but what about your parents?

Choice 1 : Let's drink ! drink ! drink !

Choice 2 : You've spent a lot of money ! You need to work

A decent job.

You found a job at a casino to pay back the debts you had accumulated. It was far more than what you had so you have to start taking night shifts now. The wage is decent so you may have to only work a semester full time to fully pay your debt.

Choice 1 : School and work ain't that bad

Write a choice here.

Taking a break.

While you're on break you hear about experimental psychology. the branch of psychology that uses experimental methods to study psychological issues. There's a new clinic on your way to school that opened.

Choice 1 : Ignore it and go partying

Choice 2 : Ask for an internship

Choice 3 : Keep working there.

You are dead :(.

Drinking too much can harm your health. Excessive alcohol use led to approximately 88,000 deaths and 2.5 million years of potential life lost (YPLL) each year in the United States. You were one of them.

Choice 1 : You can resurrect.

Internship.

internship and work abroad programs allow students and professionals to develop the expanding set of competencies demanded in today’s global economy. This company was a hidden gem. You were in charge of the consent by a patient to undergo a medical or surgical treatment or to participate in an experiment after the patient understands the risks involved.

Choice 1 : You messed up.

Choice 2 : Let's do it !

Moving up.

The company opened a branch in Dubai and asked you for relocalization. The Alfa fellowship Internship was an invaluable experience. You've got accustomed to another culture and even learned a 4th language. You are ready for every challenge that comes to you.

Choice 1 : Keep at it.

The future is yours.

You've learned, went through a lot of hardships, but in the end, you stood strong. You will become a full-fledged psychologist. Congratulation.

Choice 1 : Succes ! Play again ?

Hard work.

Keeping up with school, while working Part-time is really tough on a Psychology student maybe you should make it easier for next semester and take 4 to 6 classes instead of 8.

Choice 1 : Keep 8 classes, it's easy

Choice 2 : Drop to 5 classes.

Burned out.

Burnout is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. It occurs when you feel overwhelmed, emotionally drained, and unable to meet constant demands. As the stress continues, you begin to lose the interest and motivation that led you to take on a certain role in the first place. You can't continue anymore the accumulated stress has made you unintelligible. You don't even know what to do anymore. The only light that relaxes you now is alcohol.

Choice 1 : You fall in the cycle of addiction.

Addiction.

Addiction is a chronic brain disease. You become so dependent of the medium that you start abusing it. The process of developing an addiction, in this case, could cause a relapse.

Choice 1 : You have to keep drinking there's no more light.

Safe Zone.

You've come to a point where life is willing to offer you a chance. Though you've faced many hardships it is your chance to start anew.

Choice 1 : Return to school after a good break.

Welcome to UQAM.

You enter one of the biggest schools with over 38.000 students. You meet a lot of wonderful people and you are amazed by modern buildings. The school is in French which is really easy to follow so you take your classes easily. You found yourself in a dilemma, now that you have to pick your history of psychology teacher.

Choice 1 : You chose Madeline.

Choice 2 : You chose Randolph

You chose Madeline.

Madeline Marx is a psychoanalyst who also studied and got his doctorate here in UQAM. He's a very generous man that helps third world countries in his free time. He teaches us about the Ego Ideal which is part of the superego that contains standards, values, and moral ideals. Failure to meet these standards can cause feelings of guilt or shame, while success can enhance self-esteem. It's a very important concept of psychoanalysis.

Choice 1 : Stay

Choice 2 : Dropout

Denial.

Madeline Marx posses a huge ego and having his advances denied by one of the students causes a huge change in him. He starts living in denial when it comes to what happened with the student. Denial is an individual’s refusal to accept certain or confront (or all) aspects of a given reality in order to avoid potential feelings of discomfort. Everyone heard about the rejection and the class atmosphere is now different.

Choice 1 : Stay.

Choice 2 : Change teachers and go with Randolph.

Oh boy.

Keeping all these emotions inside of him turned him into a madman. A person who exhibits insanity. Emma the student whom the teacher confessed was found dead a few days later after one of her friends broke into her place because she got worried. This event will forever leave a print in your mind and it will eventually lead to your fall.

Choice 1 : You tell yourself you should have left when you had the chance

Randolph Stephenson.

The best, there's nothing else to add because there is no teacher that comes close to him. Would you like to know why? he explained the outline and taught us a few concepts, like alienation, psychoeducation, bulimia. Just to let you know, Alienation is a concept where someone has the urge to leave a group that you are a part of. It can occur when a person has very low self-esteem.

Choice 1 : You like it so far keep studying.

Neuro-linguistic.

I decided to take a neuro-linguistic programming course. The course was really hard so I either had to pick a tutor to help me or focus myself in my studies and believe that everything would turn fine.

Choice 1 : Try to memorize, it's easy.

Choice 2 : Get a tutor.

You took 5 classes.

Your school life is going great you can keep up with work, life, school and have a decent sleep. One of your teachers offers you an internship are you willing to take it? Or would you rather keep studying.

Choice 1 : Accept.

Choice 2 : Keep studying !

The perfect? school tutor.

You found out that this guy had amazing rates on a school tutor webpage. He even offered you to pay you back if you didn't get straight A's. wouldn't it be worthwhile to learn under such a capable person?

Choice 1 : Yeah I'm in !

Dr. Prakash Masand, a psychiatrist and the founder of the Centers of Psychiatric Excellence.

This man is incredible. He even offered you a drink!

Choice 1 : I'm gonna drink this ?!

Oops !

You wake up in a basement. There's plenty of other people with you and then you realize that this man was in fact a psychopath. It's someone who goes against society, rules, and other behaviors that are more commonplace.

Choice 1 : Flee

Choice 2 : Fight

You died.

You ended up not doing anything and you died.

Choice 1 : Restart.

You fought!

You were a genius and you somehow managed to pass through such a traumatic experience. But, this won't end well for you. . .

Choice 1 : You start drinking.

The rest of your life.

The job was alright so you decided to keep working there. Time passed and new people started coming. The newer members accepted the internships that you declined and now they are making way more money than you.

Choice 1 : Restart.

You decide to keep studying, you ignore every single obstacle in your way. For the next 8 years, you have never given up. You will soon graduate!

Write this part of the story here and present your reader with choices.

Choice 1 : Let's go partying !

Choice 2 : A little push.

Graduation.

Now that you have graduated from a Ph.D. in psychology. You have mastered the behaviorism approach. In a modern society where mental health is a huge issue you will surely find a job in no time.

Choice 1 : Congratulation ! there's another way to win ! Play again ?