Covid-19 and psychological distress
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What are the effects of the health crisis on our mental health?
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By: Caroline Paré Follow
50 min
In this period of health crisis (and even more so for populations subject to confinement), some people develop stress and anxiety.
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Viral threat, loss of landmarks, deprivation of certain social ties ... These joint and prolonged factors are likely to generate new pathologies, such as causing decompensations, in patients diagnosed and treated for mental disorders.
What are the effects of confinement and a health crisis that is now lasting, on our mental health?
And what are the attitudes to deal with the consequences of this stress?
Prof. Nicolas Franck
, psychiatrist, head of department at
Le Vinatier hospital
and teaching manager at
Claude Bernard University in Lyon
.
Author of "Covid-19 and psychological distress 2020, the odyssey of confinement", published by Odile Jacob
Dr Médard Asséman Koua
, Psychiatrist-Psychotherapist.
Director of the Bouaké Psychiatric Hospital.
Lecturer-Researcher at
Alassane OUATTARA University in Bouaké
, Côte d'Ivoire.
Pr Franck Bellivier,
Ministerial Delegate for Mental Health and Psychiatry at the French
Ministry of Health
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