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  A comment on Conversation: What Inspires You to Succeed in Life?

  Nov 7 2012: I used to have this notion that success is rooted in being able to achieve all the levels in Maslows Hierarchy of Needs. Over the years, however, my definition of success have changed. Today, success means making a difference in your life or in somebody else's, no matter how little. Success means you know what you want, you set goals and you take the steps to reach that goal of yours. Cliche as it may sound like, my inspiration to succeed is my family. Someday, when I go down the memory lane, I want to look back knowing my parents are proud of me, I want them smiling and saying " I did a great job in raising my daughter".
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  A comment on Conversation: What experiences have made you more comfortable with mental health disorders?

  Nov 7 2012: Perhaps, my experiences as a student nurse before have made me see people with mental disorders in a different light. As part of the learning process, we were tasked to stay in a mental facility and take care of patients with various conditions - schizophrenia, dementia, bipolar disorders,etc. I used to have this fear of being harmed by these patients, having the stereotype that they are rather banes of the society. But how was I able to outgrow that fear?Being knowledgeable of what these people are going through and above all, empathy. It is believed that once we put ourselves on the shoes of others, taking it in the figurative sense of course, we learn to understand them.When we leave our own boxes and see things in a different perspective, that's how we begin to see the bigger picture.
  
  Also, we need to put into consideration that the etiology of some of these disorders is unknown. These people or most of them do not even understand what they're going through.