College major choice failure

I've known what I wanted to major in for several years now. And I'll admit that part of the reason I've known for so long is because it seemed rather inevitable--people talk to me and I try and be honest back because it seems like that's what they need. Generally, all three parts hold true.

Of course, once I figured out that I sort of like having people talk to me, I figured that being a psychologist meant I'd get to do that and not have to have an office job. Two for one, right? And most of the time, it's really something I can see myself doing. Except for occasionally, I feel like I have no idea how to handle a situation. This happens a few times a year, and I always get really worked up over something that is technically neither my problem nor my fault.

So I'm kind of in it for the long haul not only because I want to help people, but because I want to help people without hurting myself. Sounds selfish, I know. At the same time, I know I don't have it in me to work myself over for other people, and that'll probably make me a better psychologist just because I don't have a massive set of my own baggage (yet) that'll influence my decisions and advice. But, I guess I'm trying to reconcile helping others with helping myself, because I know I can manage the two in conjunction, I just need to find a way to articulate it.

Perhaps like so: I want to learn how to help people better so that I can help them more easily, without doing any self-damage, and so that I can keep wanting to help them. I suppose I'm really worried that I'll completely stop caring at some point, because I've had it happen on a smaller scale and frankly it made me feel like a complete bitch. At this point, I don't have the ability or the knowledge to keep myself from falling into this trap, but I guess that's what college is for. I'm just really worried that I'll go and I'll learn all the theory and it won't do my any good because I've been told to really succeed in this field, you need a degree of intuitiveness--you can't just follow the book.

Which leaves me stuck. I don't really have a better plan, so I know this is the one I'm sticking to unless I chicken out and just go into some other field entirely, in which case someone ought to slap me--because I really think this could make me happy AND provide a fair amount of financial security. Everyone needs a shrink. Anyways, this post needed to be written, and now it has been and I'm going to make another post detailing something quite a bit lighter.

Please, do me a favor and DON'T COMMENT. Seriously, I need to stop being an ostrich and pull my head out of the dirt on my own.