Confusion about college choices...?

[Elle]

I'm a 15 year old girl. Since I was tiny I have wanted to be an author and when I went to look around college I was going to choose a 'print based media' course. This led me into everything writing such as journalism, photography and other writing jobs.
Recently I have been wanting to go off on something completely different feeling that I'm not good enough and that it would bore me. So now I have chosen 'health and social care' course and have been looking into working in mental health care etc. I have been so so excited and think I have made the right choice, and I've been accepted!
However tonight I was filling out a hopes and dreams sheet for homework and realised that writing is what I love to do, and can only really see myself doing that. I feel so sad and scared about the future and have no idea what to do. I would like to go into mental health care but when I try to imagine myself doing that I just can't, whereas when I try to imagine myself behind a computer or with pen and paper I can.
I just don't know what to do, please someone help me

[Caliban]

Actually, you do know what to do. You just want assurance that you have made the right choice.
Always, always follow your hopes and dreams; become a writer.
As for your mental health aspirations you can always pursue that career at first in order to ensure your finances needed to support your writing career. Once you become published and famous, you can become a full-time writer.

Who knows, you may write a great mental health based story like "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest."

[harwarda]

There is a field right now called "Creative Non-Fiction". That is when people write about real events or people or subjects, but in an interesting way. A recent book that's being used in a lot of high school and college courses in the U.S. is called "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks". It's about a cancer patient whose cells were cloned and used by researchers all over the world without her family's knowledge. It was written by a former colleague of mine, who had to do a lot of research into the science behind the story.
There are also many publications that print article for general readers on scientific and health care subjects- in the U.S., examples include Scientific American and Psychology Today. You might be able to get some of the articles online.

So if you study health care, you might then be able to have a career writing about it for general readers. It would be a way of combining your two interests.

[Cherry]

I have a proposition. Why don't you mix mental health care and writing together? Use your writing skills to help people in mental care or help people understand more about mental healthcare. Or maybe you will even be able to do something like mental health therapy using writing and communicating etc.

Hope this gives you some idea or inspiration as to what you are going to do.