Personal Problems

Roughly every 4th advice seeking student comes to the Psychological Counselling Centre with personal problems. Because difficulties with contact to other students or teachers/lecturers, family conflicts, fears or personal crises, usually also have an effect on study success.

How do you deal with your problems?

• Do you seek advice from friends?
•  Do you cause distress for others and insist they should help you?
•  Do you distract yourself by doing other activities?
•  Do you always try to achieve more and more in order to feel better about yourself as a result of the successes?
•  Do you search for the causes of your difficulties in order to learn from your mistakes?
•  Do you seek help from experts?

We recommend professional help if ...

• Your ability to work and your quality of life as a result of mental overload is considerably impaired.
• You are so hampered by fears, depressive feelings or relationship problems that it is hard for you to cope on a day to day basis.
• The same problems keep coming up which you alone seem unable to control/cope with.

Getting help?

Going to see a Psychologist or Psychotherapist is often not easy, because there are lots of preconceptions and fears surrounding it, such as :

Whoever goes to see a Psychologist isn´t normal.

Whoever can´t help themselves in crises is a failure.

It is embarassing to confide in a stranger with your most personal problems.

But it is completely normal to have problems and it is appropriate to do something about them.
 

• Whoever would like to clarify questions and uncertainties...
• Whoever would like to discuss their problems in the most effective possible way....
• Whoever is not content with themselves and would like to develop further..
• Whoever has had enough of being stuck in a crisis for an unnecessarily long time..
• Whoever would like to procure help towards self-help...

...you can obtain support from experts in order to learn to be able to cope better with problems and different stages of development.