INTERVIEW
What to do when you are deeply depressed during confinement and / or anxious about the coronavirus? Psychologist Stéphany Orain-Pelissolo launched the CovidÉcoute platform, a website that allows people to find resources to calm or treat their anxiety. She was the guest of Sans Rendez-vous with Mélanie Gomez on Europe 1, Friday afternoon.
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CovidÉcoute, a free platform, "is a website that provides access to three resources for people in need," says the psychologist. "These people fill out a questionnaire and they can be referred to healthcare professionals by videoconference, with the choice of their therapists." It is possible to benefit from several sessions.
If the psychological suffering is less, they are "referred to guides to help oneself, which are meditation programs established according to the needs of the person".
113 volunteers already on the platform
Currently, there are "more than 113 volunteers on board, and 400 waiting," continues Stéphany Orain-Pelissolo. "People will be able to quickly reach someone. Those who have suicidal thoughts, we will direct them directly to the 15." On the other hand, the professionals present on CovidÉcoute cannot prescribe drugs against these anxieties; if treatment appears necessary, the volunteers redirect the suffering people to their GP.
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And during these 45-minute sessions, the professionals were "surprised to be confronted with fairly significant depressive syndromes in people", says the psychologist: "They feel helpless, useless ... Some feel completely overwhelmed by the They are quite surprised at the intensity of the emotions they feel "during this confinement, which must last at least until May 11.