When you were just an infant, you knew what you wanted and how to get it. You did not come on this planet to fulfil others’ expectations, to sacrifice your identity, to merge with the crowds and to ignore your own needs. They forget what makes them happy, what they want from their lives and what they need for fulfillment, and they eventually completely lose touch with who they really are. They ignore their inner voice as they are so busy fulfilling everyone else’s wishes. They live their lives fulfilling others’ expectations of them, from what their parents think is best for them, to what their teachers, friends, siblings, extended family, spouse, their community, their government and even the media think is best for them. Many people are living a life according to what others think is best for them. Alderĭo you sometimes feel like something is missing in your life? That you are living someone else’s life? That you are fulfilling everyone else’s needs except your own? It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked ― Shannon L. The family must be supported as it faces the frightening specter of a deranged mind with peculiar behaviors and all it signifies.Chapter 1 Break Free of the Expectations of Others Nurses are burdened with the need to provide satisfactory care and a safe immediate environment for the patient, and at the same time, maintain a tranquil atmosphere for other patients. The physician has to cope with the problem of diagnosis, often without the advantage of a lucid history, and any program of therapy is constantly impeded by the patient's inattention, agitation, sleeplessness, and inability to cooperate. Occurring, as it often does, during an infection with fever or in the course of a toxic or metabolic disorder (such as renal or hepatic failure) or as an effect of medication, drugs, or alcohol, it never fails to create grave problems for the physician, nursing personnel, and family.

The striking event in which a patient with previously intact mentality becomes acutely confused is observed almost daily on the medical, surgical, and emergency wards of a general hospital.

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