Know how to say no

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Why do you have to know how to say no? iStock / Canetti

By: Caroline Paré Follow

Out of politeness, fear of disappointment or even to please, it can be difficult for some people to say no. However, whether in love, at work, with friends or family, the risk of always accepting everything is to let yourself be overrun by others, to the point of forgetting your own desires.

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Why do you have to know how to say no? How to assert yourself without feeling guilty?

  • Dr Marie-Claude Gavard , psychiatrist, psychotherapist in Paris. Author of the book “But what's going on in my head? »At Marabout editions.
  • Dr Félicien Ntoné , psychiatrist, child psychiatrist, hospital psychiatrist in Cameroon. Lecturer in psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Yaoundé (lecturer), deputy director general of the CHU of Yaoundé in Cameroon.

At the end of the program, we give the floor to  Blandine Bila , anthropologist at the Institute for research in health science of Ouagadougou, one of the Laureates of the call for projects "Flash" launched by the National Agency for research on HIV and viral hepatitis (ANRS) , to urgently support research on COVID-19 in countries with limited resources. 

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