BLOG Healthy depression

By Patrick van Wageningen I meet many students who struggle with tension, effort and failure. There is a lot of fear in students of not doing it right and that drives them to go on and on. This is also familiar territory for me. Life like that us ...

BLOG Inner cleaning is necessary

When I started as a student counselor, I realized that stress and burnout would be a theme. In practice, however, I notice how important this is and how personal this effort is. The struggle we all fight to be good enough, to belong or ...

BLOG. A shame. Together in action against suicide

November 7 I was present in Leiden at a conference on suicide prevention, entitled Deadly sin. A few hundred workers from the world of social work, community team, police, youth care, mental health care, general practitioners, schools and patient organizations shared their concerns about ...