She ate pasta for two weeks, took a shower after each outing for the mail ... For two months, Carole is cloistered at home and does not plan to go out on Monday, eaten away like others by the "fear" that makes doctors fear the appearance of "psychiatric disorders". Alone with her two-year-old daughter, Carole, 42, a nanny, has not left her apartment in Celle-Saint-Cloud (Yvelines), except to go around the block, because her doctor had insisted.
"I did this two days, but seeing that there were still dead, I stopped. I prefer to stay at home, I am safer, ”she says. Due to the lack of available delivery time, she remained almost two weeks without food: “It was pasta and pasta. The main thing was that there was milk for my daughter ”.
On May 11, she will not return to work and will stay at home while waiting to see if a possible rebound of the epidemic occurs. "I am even more afraid because there will be many more people on the streets," she explains. She plans to go to a psychologist to help her fight this fear.
Major phobic disorders
At the end of these eight weeks of confinement, "we can easily imagine, major phobic disorders, and certainly depressions, as we sometimes observe after having overcome an ordeal, when it comes to facing up again to a form of everyday life, ”explains Antoine Zuber, psychiatrist in Paris.
A concern shared by mental health professionals in all the countries affected by the pandemic, where studies show an increase in anxiety and depression.
For the time being, underlines Doctor Zuber, "the cases escape de facto from our observation", the people affected by these troubles remaining scrupulously confined. "We heard about the risk of" post-traumatic stress disorder ", but they would then have a completely new clinical presentation," says the psychiatrist.
"We can also imagine reactions of fear or irrational anger, in front of what in the other would be considered" irresponsible "and not civic", in particular in public transport, he adds.
"This enormous number of deaths" ...
"In the street, we will look like after the attacks, in a slightly suspicious manner," predicts Nancy, 28, Parisian. Freelance graphic designer and saleswoman in a clothing store on weekends, she is stressed out having to resume public transport, after almost two months of strict confinement.
His companion, Yves-Allan, explains that he only went out every 10 days to run errands, "to minimize the risks, preserve my health, and by telling me that if everyone respected him, we would do better quickly ". Real estate agent, he will go to work serene, especially because he is "lucky to be able to go there on foot", with masks and gloves provided by his employer.
Except for work, the couple has not planned any outing, waiting to see the evolution of the epidemic after the deconfinement. "If someone invites me somewhere, I will say no," says Nancy. "I know what I did, the precautions taken, but the others did not."
Ghania will not be released after May 11. This mother of two young children who lives with her family in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis) is "afraid for them". "Even if they say they are immune, they can still catch it," she feared. In his city, schools will not reopen.
When the confinement was announced, she said that she had "taken a blow to the face". "After telling us that this virus was nothing, we closed everything, the schools ... So I did not go out at all, and neither did the children," she explains.
The macabre count of victims of the virus also traumatized her: “I avoid watching the news. This huge number of deaths every day I cannot bear. It stresses me to see so many people die, I think of their families. To mine, in Algeria, where the hospitals are not as good as here… ”
With her husband, they would like to be able to buy a car. "We could get out of town," she dreams. “Take the kids to run in a field, or even in a vacant lot. There, they would not risk anything ”.
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