“There is only one person who has been able to break through my armour”: the life lessons of psychiatrist Dirk De Wachter | BV

It has now been a year since psychiatrist Dirk De Wachter was diagnosed with cancer. A month-long treatment followed, but today he is breathing again. “I had my first thorough checkup,” he says. “I dare not say that there was good news, I would rather say that there was no bad news. Fortunately, no new metastases have been identified, that would have been a disaster. I can now continue until the end of August, when there will be new checks. That’s how it will be for the rest of my days: from one check to the next life. But it’s going as well as it can.”