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  • On the occasion of the entry into the new decade, 20 Minutes devotes a special file to the 2020s, new crazy years.
  • While in 2016, the WHO estimated that in 2020 one in five people would be affected, at least once in their life, by a mental disorder, Ipsos puts madness at the heart of its large study "Trend Obs 2020".
  • Test your knowledge of mental health before tackling the world of tomorrow.

A hundred years later, the “roaring twenties” are coming back to the tips of their noses. From the “roaring twenties” [the roaring 1920s], carried by a creative euphoria and an almost fanatic belief in the industrial revolution, we are entering the “worrying twenties”, as the big study called it. from Ipsos "Trend Obs 2020". All week long, 20 Minutes explores the future loved ones that await us by 2030.

On the menu for the decade: disenchantment, existential distress and fantasy of the apocalypse. In this episode, 20 Minutes looks at the numbers of mental illnesses around the world.

The 2020 decade plunges into madness. In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that in 2020, one in five people in the world would be affected, at least once in their life, by a mental disorder (depression, anorexia, schizophrenia, obsessive disorder) compulsive…). The hourglass is running out and the reality does not seem to contradict the forecasts of the WHO. The Trend Obs 2020 study, presented by Ipsos in November, rightly focused on mental illnesses.

"Joker", symptom of a world going crazy

"The trend-setters [recruited by the French polling firm in five or six countries] describe a paradoxical world, which gives too much contradictory information, and the fear of going crazy," describes Thibaut Nguyen, director of the Trends department and Prospective at Ipsos. According to him, the film Joker by Todd Phillips, released in early October, is a manifestation of the pathology. "It is the symptom of a world going crazy and to which the answer is to go crazy, to go beyond the limits, to be in civil disobedience, in transgression and to let all of its impulses that they express be beautiful or horrible, "analyzes the prospectivist.

Before tackling the next decade of madness, test your knowledge of the state of health of our society.

  • Addiction
  • Sickness
  • Depression
  • Health
  • Burn out