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Websites and organisations for help on a personal level

An overview of useful websites that can help you further.

Telephone help for Tilburg University students

In case of personal, mental or emotional problems, call Tilburg University's helpline at +31 (0)6 - 2877 1262. The helpline is available from 08:00 to 23:00 for all students.

Phone and/or online help

A number of agencies offer telephone (anonymous or otherwise) and/or online (chat) help.

  • Nietalleen.nl ('not alone'): call 0800 - 1322.
  • Alles oké ?('Everything Okay?'). Offers support to anyone between 18 and 24 years of age when things are not going so well. Free and anonymous chat daily between 14:00-22:00 hrs, or call 0800-0450.
  • Mind Korrelatie: e-mail, chat, call or app with a counsellor.
  • Talking clears the air! The Luisterlijn ('Listening Line')is there for anyone in need of a listening ear, anonymously, day and night: tel. 088 - 0767 000 or chat via www.deluisterlijn.nl
  • Ease.nl, anonymous and free chat with peers and experts by experience.
  • Victim Support on 0900 - 0101.
  • Sexual Assault Center: call 0800-0188 if you need immediate help.

Suicide Prevention

In acute crisis situation, call 0800 - 0113.

Social Worker

For advice, help and support with problems you may encounter in everyday life that interfere with your studies, you can also contact the social worker.

Addiction and substance abuse
  • Drankjewel.nl: for adolescents (and adults) of parents with a drinking problem
  • www.minderdrinken.nl (drink less)
  • www.alcoholinfo.nl/publiek
  • www.ease.nl:  anonymous and free of charge chat with peers and experts by experience or visit in Amsterdam or Heerlen/Maastricht region.
  • Anonymous Alcoholics (AA): self-help group for people with an alcohol problem. AA has no waiting list, intake procedure or mandatory fees. Anyone who suspects they have a drinking problem is welcome.  National help number (24/7): 085-104 53 90.
  • Talking brings relief! The Luisterlijn (Listening Line) is there for anyone who needs a listening ear, anonymously, day or night: tel. 088 - 0767 000 or chat via the listening line.
  • Jellinek: students and substance use. See also: am I an addict? about various types of addictions, with a self-test.
  • Novadic-kentron.nl: For mild, moderate and severe addiction problems.
  • Unity: information about going out, safe(er) use of alcohol and other drugs and the risks involved.
  • MIND verslaving (MIND Addiction): all about addiction and recovery.
  • AGOG: free and immediate help for gambling addiction.
  • Trubendorffer: Help with addiction and dual diagnosis Tilburg.
  • Castle Graig: specialist in addiction treatment.
  • Cocaine Anonymous: self-help group for and by former addicts (alcohol and drugs); at various locations and online zoom meetings. Helpline: tel. 06 - 1019 2770.
  • Alles oké ?(Everything Okay). Offers support to anyone between 18 and 24 years of age when things are not going so well. Free and anonymous chat daily between 14:00-22:00 hrs, or call 0800-0450.
  • www.ease.nl:  anonymous and free of charge chat with peers and experts by experience or visit in Amsterdam or Heerlen/Maastricht region.
  • Talking brings relief! The Luisterlijn (Listening Line) is there for anyone who needs a listening ear, anonymously, day or night: tel. 088 - 0767 000 or chat via the listening line.
  • Need immediate help with gambling addiction: call 0800 - 2277722 (free).
AD(H)D
Autism

See also Autism Study Group.

More info will follow a.s.a.p.

Depressive symptoms
  • Talking brings relief! The Luisterlijn (Listening Line) is there for anyone who needs a listening ear, anonymously, day or night: tel. 088 - 0767 000 or chat via the listening line.
  • Do you worry (too) much?  Take the worry test and find more information and tips at MIND.
  • At PratenOnline.nl, young people with anxiety and depression symptoms can get free and anonymous chat therapy. You can schedule several one-on-one chat sessions with a regular professional to discuss your feelings and look for ways to feel better about yourself. A self-test and information are also offered. 
  • Alles oké? (Everything okay? ) offers support to anyone between the ages of 18 and 24 when things are not going so well. Free and anonymous chat and calls.
  • Wij zijn MIND: patient association for people with mental health problems, offers information and support; special platform for young people: MIND young.
  • MIND Blue: all about gloom and depression.
  • Grip op je Dip offers information, tips, stories of experience, mail opportunities with social workers (through the dip expert) and group courses through a closed chat box system to young people with complaints of gloom, brooding, sadness, etc.
  • Evie ("E-health for everyone"): regional platform (for residents of Hart van Brabant) with online self-help training, whether or not in combination with guidance from a social worker. But for mild complaints, you can also use Evie to work by yourself (anonymously).
  • Kleur je Leven (Color Your Life): A free online self-help course from the Trimbos Institute that supports you to live with joy and face the future positively and with confidence.
  • Depressievereniging: about half a million people in the Netherlands suffer from some form of (recurring) depression every year. The Depression Association, as a patient association, can play an important role in this.
  • What is a depression (an impression of depression among younsters).
  • www.ease.nl:  anonymous and free of charge chat with peers and experts by experience or visit in Amsterdam or Heerlen/Maastricht region.
  • Maskerclass:  After her own depression, Sophie a Rotterdam student, wants to break the taboo of discussing it with her "mask class." Read how she got out of it here.
  • You can find several music videos on YouTube to unwind or fall asleep better.
Divorce
  • Villa Pinedo: Talking, laughing, complaining or crying because your parents are divorced can be done here on a forum or 1 on 1 with a buddy. The buddies were in the same situation as you and so have lots of wise advice for you.
  • www.ease.nl:  anonymous and free of charge chat with peers and experts by experience or visit in Amsterdam or Heerlen/Maastricht region.
  • Talking brings relief! The Luisterlijn (Listening Line) is there for anyone who needs a listening ear, anonymously, day or night: tel. 088 - 0767 000 or chat via the listening line.
  • Alles oké? (Everything okay? ) offers support to anyone between the ages of 18 and 24 when things are not going so well. Free and anonymous chat and calls.
Domestic violence / safe home
Eating disorders
  • Proud2bme: About eating problems and disorders, self-help and forum for young people
  • Wij zijn MIND: patient association for people with mental health problems, offers information and support; special platform for young people: MIND young.
  • Talking brings relief! The Luisterlijn (Listening Line) is there for anyone who needs a listening ear, anonymously, day or night: tel. 088 - 0767 000 or chat via the listening line.
  • Alles oké? (Everything okay? ) offers support to anyone between the ages of 18 and 24 when things are not going so well. Free and anonymous chat and calls.
Grief and loss
  • Training grieving together
  • Achter de regenboog (Beyond the rainbow): bereavement, grief, peer contact.
  • National Grief Support Center
  • Talking brings relief! The Luisterlijn (Listening Line) is there for anyone who needs a listening ear, anonymously, day or night: tel. 088 - 0767 000 or chat via the listening line.
  • Alles oké ?(Everything Okay). Offers support to anyone between 18 and 24 years of age when things are not going so well. Free and anonymous chat daily between 14:00-22:00 hrs, or call 0800-0450.
  • www.ease.nl:  anonymous and free of charge chat with peers and experts by experience or visit in Amsterdam or Heerlen/Maastricht region.
  • Music videos to fall asleep: search YouTube under 'binaural beats
Home care
  • MantelzorgNL is the national association that stands up for everyone who selflessly cares for a loved one. MantelzorgNL commits itself with heart and mind to all informal caregivers in the Netherlands and represent their interests.
  • Contour de Twern: information about informal care and informal care consultant (Tilburg region).
  • www.ease.nl:  anonymous and free of charge chat with peers and experts by experience or visit in Amsterdam or Heerlen/Maastricht region.
  • Alles oké? (Everything okay? ) offers support to anyone between the ages of 18 and 24 when things are not going so well. Free and anonymous chat and calls.
Loneliness

During the week of loneliness (October) several activities take place. Watch the video with tips from our student psychologist Margreet van Laarhoven and Gerine Lodder of TSB and read Social life after Corona: "Picking up the thread will take some getting used to."

  • Join us in Brabant:  Youth platform, department in Tilburg at R-Newt.
  • www.avondjeuit013.nl:  leisure activities aimed at making long-term social contacts for young people between the ages of 16 and 35. 
  • Join us: Do you want to do fun things with friends more often? But don't know how to go about it? At Join Us, we're here for you. We connect you with peers and help you become stronger socially.
  • Alles oké? (Everything okay? ) offers support to anyone between the ages of 18 and 24 when things are not going so well. Free and anonymous chat and calls.
  • Talking brings relief! The Luisterlijn (Listening Line) is there for anyone who needs a listening ear, anonymously, day or night: tel. 088 - 0767 000 or chat via the listening line.
Mental health problems

Students

  • Ervaringswijzer (Experience Guide): Meeting point for mentally vulnerable people. With special focus on study and work.
  • Evie ("E-health for everyone"): regional platform (for residents of Hart van Brabant) with online self-help training, whether or not combined with counseling. But for mild complaints, you can also work with Evie yourself (anonymously).
  • Wij zijn MIND: patient association for people with mental health problems, offers information and support; special platform for young people: MIND young.
  • MIND Platform: advocacy for mental health problems.
  • Sameninmijnschoenen (Together in my shoes): information, advice and help with self-harm
  • Talking brings relief! The Luisterlijn (Listening Line) is there for anyone who needs a listening ear, anonymously, day or night: tel. 088 - 0767 000 or chat via the listening line.

Familie

  • Kopsupport: For young people with parents with mental health problemss
  • Contour de Twern: information about informal care and informal care consultant.
  • Alles oké ?(Everything Okay). Offers support to anyone between 18 and 24 years of age when things are not going so well. Free and anonymous chat daily between 14:00-22:00 hrs, or call 0800-0450.
Sexuality, relationships
  • Sense, the reliable site about sex. Here you will find lots of information about sexuality, but also about falling in love, relationships, love and everything that comes with it.
  • FlirterTwister: To where do you think sexual behavior is still okay? What about someone else? Play this game with a friend, partner, an acquaintance or colleague!
  • GGD Hart van Brabant (Public Health Department): for all your questions about sex, falling in love, love and everything that comes with it. For everyone under the age of 25.
  • COC Netherlands: stands up for the interests of LGBT people.
  • Wat kan mij helpen (What can help me): doesn't feel okay, then it's not okay. Helpful home page with referrals to help, even if an unpleasant event occurred longer ago; stories of experience; information about emotions, thoughts and physical reactions; common situations.
  • Sexting and nude photos: how to deal with them?
  • Center for Sexual Violence: for a sexual assault or rape, you can also contact the Sexual Violence Center, call toll-free 0800 - 0188 (available 24 hours a day). The center focuses on sexual violence less than a week ago, with a view to processing and health, and securing traces.
  • Victim Support: If you have experienced sexual harassment or violence, you can contact Victim Support at 0900 - 0101.
  • blauwemaan.nl: help after involuntary sex and abuse.
  • Veilig thuis (safe home)
  • Domestic violence advice and hotline
  • Alles oké ?(Everything Okay). Offers support to anyone between 18 and 24 years of age when things are not going so well. Free and anonymous chat daily between 14:00-22:00 hrs, or call 0800-0450.
  • www.ease.nl:  anonymous and free of charge chat with peers and experts by experience or visit in Amsterdam or Heerlen/Maastricht region.
  • Talking brings relief! The Luisterlijn (Listening Line) is there for anyone who needs a listening ear, anonymously, day or night: tel. 088 - 0767 000 or chat via the listening line.
Stand on your own feet
(Thoughts) of suicide
  • In acute crisis situations, call 0800 - 0113.
  • 113 Suicide Prevention Foundation if you are thinking about suicide; help and prevention
  • Samen minder suïcide (Together less suicide): this website is intended for anyone who is or wants to become active in the field of suicide prevention.
  • Talking brings relief! The Luisterlijn (Listening Line) is there for anyone who needs a listening ear, anonymously, day or night: tel. 088 - 0767 000 or chat via the listening line.
  • You can find several music videos on YouTube to unwind or fall asleep better.
(Unanticipated) pregnancy, adoption, abortion
  • FIOM: for such things as adoption care, donor parent unknown, young fathers and mothers, abortion processing, peer contact, etc.
  • Talking brings relief! The Luisterlijn (Listening Line) is there for anyone who needs a listening ear, anonymously, day or night: tel. 088 - 0767 000 or chat via the listening line.
  • www.ease.nl:  anonymous and free of charge chat with peers and experts by experience or visit in Amsterdam or Heerlen/Maastricht region.