Learning to become a psychiatric male nurse starts with knowing yourself, what drives you, what intrinsic motivation keeps you going.

It’s also re-thinking who you are, get a notion of what values you think are important to you, what ideal(s) you whant to achieve for yourself.

At this moment I’m evaluating every ideal I set in my life, why I chose to live for that ideal, what ideas that I have about it, and also chose other ideals if they don’t fit properly in the person that I try to achieve. (warm, emphtic, open, understanding,...)

Working as an intern makes me feel vonurable, because I see, hear, watch people who lived some of the values and ideas that I wanted to achieve, and brings them to an other dimension, an other point of view.

And that shakes up your fundaments strongly. So in a way I get a lesson in life that I’m gratefull for, that I may experience that.

It makes you go up the walls! Sometimes it makes me angry, sometimes sad, sometimes defenseless, sometimes …

But still it makes you stronger as a person. The person I want to be.