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iamYu: Jeugdzorg die gaat over jou!
Anna Lichtwarck-Aschoff - 24-10-2019VOTE NOW!! The iamYu app competes for the ZonMw Medical Inspirator award. Cast your vote here [insert url] and contribute to personalized & collaborative youth care!
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Let’s Talk about Mental Health: YouTubers and Twitch Streamers Speak Up.
Babet Halberstadt - 16-09-2018Recently, a number of YouTubers and Twitch streamers have started talking about their own mental health struggles, trying to start a conversation with their viewers about this topic. In this blog I showcase a couple of these videos in the hopes that it might encourage you to speak up as well.
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May roundup: A kaleidoscope of options for depression and anxiety
Marlou Poppelaars - 31-05-2018The month of May is almost over, which means that in the next few days we are switching over to a new topic. In case you missed any of our blogs this month, I have compiled them all here.
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Dark Souls: A reflection of depression and a way to cope?
Marlou Poppelaars - 18-05-2018Dark Souls is a video game series often described as dark and incredibly difficult. Honestly, one of the last games I would have considered as beneficial for those dealing with depression. My first impression may very well be wrong though...
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Do It Yourself: Dealing with depression and anxiety
Marlou Poppelaars - 04-05-2018Everyone has moments when they feel sad, lonely, numb, exhausted, depressed, nervous or anxious. This is a normal part of the ups and downs of life and most people will experience one or more periods in their lives, when they have a diagnosable depression or anxiety disorder. But even if things are not quite that bad, you may still want to do something to help yourself feel better!
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Student life: Having lots of fun? Loneliness in university students
Maaike Verhagen - 19-12-2017Student life is regularly considered as one of the best periods in your life. It usually takes place in vivid and dynamic environments, with lots of opportunities to connect to others, to hang out on the campus or in bars, to play sports together, to go on cultural outings, to exchange ideas, opinions and so on. This provides students with various opportunities for making friends. In fact, one never has to be alone and one could suppose that there is no reason for students to feel lonely. However, that is not what a recent survey on our Radboud campus tells us… One out of four students feels lonely!
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Loneliness and I are Frenemies
Ken Koontz - 11-12-2017It makes me feel comfortable knowing that I can be by myself and enjoy that time on my own, however when I start to frequently choose to be by myself rather than join others out and about am I being self confident or retreating into loneliness?
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Theme Month December – Loneliness
Babet Halberstadt - 01-12-2017December is already upon us and the end of the year is just around the corner. Last month’s theme was focused on kindness and prosociality, but this month’s theme looks at what happens when social relationships are lacking; loneliness. Unfortunately, it is a feeling most of us will experience sooner or later.
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Theme Month November - Kindness and Prosociality: The Brain and Beyond
Nastasia Griffioen - 01-11-2017November is upon us, and so is this month's theme: kindness and prosociality, centered around World Kindness Day taking place on November 13th. The coming two months will form a diptych about social relationships, with November addressing their bright side - kindness and prosociality, and December addressing loneliness, when social relationships are lacking.
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What's our "Why"?
Isabela Granic - 02-06-2017If the GEMH lab is going to be successful in its mission to deliver a radically new form of mental health interventions for youth, we need to have a very clear purpose, to start with our WHY and design and test games that fit with our WHY...