Any Mental Health Nurses out there? Please read this question and help me out?

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Stacey

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Basically, I would really like to hear about you and your job and how you feel about your job please. The reason being, I am very interested in Psychology and mental disorders and helping people and so I thought that maybe Mental Health Nurse would be an ideal job for me? As well as hearing out your experience and about you and how you cope etc, could you also please give you opinion of whether you think I would be suited to it? I know I am asking a lot but it's just, i need information because I told my parents I wanted to do this job and they immediatley turned their nose up at it and said that it was a 'cop out' that I want to do it. They also said that Mental Health Nurses have a bad reputation for being "loopy" themselves and that they are "plastic nurses" so in other words they do nothing that is helpful. I disagree but it really upsets me that they feel this way and are being so opinionated about it and most of all that they are not being supportive of me at all. They want me to do "normal" nursing instea dbecuase they think it is more "worthwhile" Any information you could give me would be great. Thank you. Stacey xxx (the " indicate that it is purely their thoughts and not mine)
 
Sadly your parents sound like very shallow-minded people

Any MH nurse has immense understanding or she/he wouldn't be in the job and
they are highly qualified in their specialism.

and to be honest,mental health patients are not Loopy,they are sick/ill just like anyone else who has an illness

Maybe time you told you parents to obtain a greater understanding of Mental Health, so that they have have some understanding and empathy

It is indeed a very worthwhile career to have and please remind them it is YOUR life,and YOUR choice -Not theirs

Good Luck and well done on your career choice, which I'm sure you will find very rewarding
 
My boss's wife is a MHN - she is an amazing woman, totally loves her job and (to my mind) gets far too involved with it - but thats all to the good to be honest.
 
I am not a mental health nurse but would offer this advice ( BEING SOME 60 YEARS OLD AND WISE ) You must follow your own feelings and do as you feel you need to do , Your parents will not always be there to guide or hinder you . So do as you are doing now and research the job you feel you want to do , make your own decisions you are old enough . and always remember that if after all you have done you feel that you have made a mistake remember it was your decision and you are young enough to change direction. be brave enough to make your own mind up
 
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