Personal Issues

Roughly every 4th advice-seeking student comes to the Psychological Counseling Centers because of personal problems Difficulties with contact to other students or teachers/lecturers, family conflicts, fears or personal crises, usually have a negative effect on study success.

How do you deal with your problems?

Do you seek advice from friends/your family?
Do you cause distress for others and insist they should help you?
Do you distract yourself with 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 blocked 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 and you feel unable to control/cope with them alone.

Getting help?

Seeing a Psychologist or Psychotherapist often costs an effort as there are lots of preconceptions and fears surrounding it, such as:

Whoever goes to see a Psychologist is not normal.
Whoever can´t help themselves in crises is a failure.
It is embarrassing to confide in a stranger with your most personal problems.

But it is completely ok to have problems and it is appropriate to do something about them. Seeking (professional) help is a sign of strength.

If you,,,

...would like to clarify questions and uncertainties,...
...would like to discuss your problems in the most effective way possible,....
...are not satisfied with yourself and would like to develop your personality further,...
...have had enough of being stuck in a crisis for an unnecessarily long time,...
...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 to foster self-development.