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It is a period of her dark and unknown life that Muriel Robin, actress and comedian, described Monday, at the microphone of Philippe Vandel on Europe 1. On the occasion of the broadcast of a TV movie on TF1 on Alzheimer, Monday evening, in which she shares the spotlight with Mr. Pokora ( The first forgotten ), Muriel Robin reflects on her suffering, fifteen years ago, when she was supporting her mother with Alzheimer's disease.
"We could have been two to leave"
"I was sucked into making a suicide attempt the day before or the day after my mother died." It did not work out but we could have been two to leave, "she recalls. Muriel Robin would have liked to be more supported during this traumatic episode. "I think it should be a small guide for caregivers and the medical profession gives advice," she says.
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The actress raises, for example, the delicate question of the rehousing of the patient in Ehpad. "When the person lives at home and says, 'I want to stay at home', you have to start booking a place, there are lots of things you do not know," she says. .
"Helping yes, caring no"
Muriel Robin also explains that she could have set more limits in this investment with her mother. "We end up managing the intimate," including "the toilet of his mother or father," she explains. "These are pictures that stay for life, do I have to do it?" I say no because at some point you have to stay upright, you do not have to be a caregiver, you have to be a caregiver.
Like her, relatives can also be victims of denial and feel guilty. Muriel Robin would have liked to consult "a small fascicle on the first symptoms" of the disease. "I read on an exam of my mother, 'immediate memory zero' but I did not take (that for a fact)," she remembers.
The disease had reached her mother so much that she died in 2003. Muriel Robin recounts her last moments with her. "When I arrived at the hospital, it was terrible because I heard the cries of a beast that was being slaughtered and I knew it was my mother, she was aware of being sick," she says. -she.