Rámon Verkoeijen does not see his burnout as a dark period. It was “much more of an enlightening time” for the 3FM DJ that he is grateful for, he says in an interview that Saturday. Het Parool appears.
Verkoeijen is now doing well. “That energetic feeling of the past is back. Nowadays I wake up early again with the desire to do something,” said the radio producer. According to him, that feeling has slowly but surely returned in the second half of last year. “Not that I’m the same, is it? I just feel like I’ve gained a lot of new insights over the past year.”
“The most important gain: I have come to realize that I am much more than a job title. I had started to identify with my job,” explains Verkoeijen. “But there is much more: your passions, interests, the people around you; they really make you who you are.”
Verkoeijen says he was busy with his work “perhaps 95 percent” of the day before his burnout. According to him, the proportions became completely out of balance. “I didn’t pay any attention to how I felt. I was on the phone with colleagues until late at night, I felt very involved. Everything had to be perfect.”
He now looks back on his burnout with a feeling of gratitude. “I already had that feeling after two weeks. By only doing the things that really make me happy, there is now balance”, says Verkoeijen. “I’ve been able to rearrange my life. The way I want it.”
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