Wednesday 13-05

Today we finished our list of assumptions and discussed these with fellow students/friends/classmates. It was really interesting to hear their view on our assumptions and it was a good way to look at them from a different perspective.

Furthermore, we had our second interview with an expert today. We talked to Bart Oosting, who is a student psychologist at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. This conversation was really fascinating and honestly quite thought-provoking, since he mentioned some things we did not think of ourselves before. For example, from our research so far, we concluded that almost 40% of the youngsters is struggling with loneliness during this corona crisis. Although this fact is true, he pointed out to us that this does not mean that these feelings of loneliness have mental consequences for most. In fact, he told us that most youngsters will probably come out of this without any mental consequences/illnesses, since this feeling of loneliness is temporarily. However, who we should look out for is the group of youngsters that were already struggling with feelings of loneliness or other mental illnesses before this quarantine. They can spiral down into a really negative state and often don’t let themselves be heard.

We also talked about some of our other assumptions to him and he really took his time to help us and answer our questions.

Tomorrow we have another interview planned and we will have our weekly meeting with Brigitte.

Speak to you then!

Amanda