Learning about psychology helped save my Life when I was young

My aunts (my father's sisters) were allowed to go to college in the 1930s to find a husband but my father, his two brothers and he were not allowed to go to college like their sisters even though my father was valedictorian of his Senior High School Class. He carried a chip on his shoulder about this throughout his life.

So, my cousin and I (son of one of my Dad's sisters) going to college was a new generation of people who actually did go to college. My father went to Electrical Trade School for 4 years time at nights to become a journeyman electrician to learn how to wire houses, figure line loads and draw electrical building plans and how to estimate jobs if he became a full contractor which he eventually did.

But, my father never had studied psychology at all even though his sisters studied it as general education in their colleges.

So, I was wondering what tore my life up at about age 21 and so I started in desperation to read Psychology Today which is a magazine published I believe either monthly or quarterly then in the college library where I was going to school. As I started to read these articles I began to realize why I and everyone I knew had certain problems and could then trace all the problems to genetics, to family traits, to conditioning down through the generations and realized I had no reason at all to take responsibility for most things happening in my life.

So, instead of feeling guilty for what other people had done to me all my life I decided that I would create my own life, my own world, my own belief systems based completely upon my experiences 24 hours a day the rest of my life.

I realized that I had been betrayed by all my ancestors and so took it upon myself not to betray myself anymore with incorrect notions and superstititions that came down through thousands of years of PTSD throughout the generations.

Instead I would be "Captain of my own Ship and Master of my own destiny" so I set out to do this and I succeeded over time. By the time I had reached about 30 to 32 I had an inner peace that was almost constant and it seldom broke. And even then I knew how to regenerate my inner peace and health very soon.

By understanding the science of Psychology, Philosophy, Anthropology, and then approaching all religions that believe in the Golden rule "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" and finding out what I found useful about each of them.

Then I scientifically approached all the religions like I would imagine Francis Bacon would do with the Scientific Method and began to classify everything I studied In Hypotheses, Theories and Laws which meant I seldom threw things out I just had thousands of hypotheses, hundreds of Theories and just a few laws to live by that were refined through experience, common sense, and constant testing.

So, spirituality and kindness is not theoretical at all because I'm constantly testing all useful  methods towards my enlightenment and the enlightenment of all beings around me ongoing because this is the most compassionate thing I can do for myself and all mankind.