While further restrictions could be taken to combat the pandemic, the mental health of the youngest is again in question.
New member of the Scientific Council, the child psychiatrist Angèle Consoli expressed her concerns at the microphone of Europe 1 on Saturday.
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The situation of the student community in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic has recently been brought to light, revealing its economic precariousness and its psychological distress.
But the mental health of the little ones is also threatened.
New to the Scientific Council, and the first child psychiatrist of this group of experts, Angèle Consoli was the guest of Europe 1 on Saturday.
She described an alarming situation in the child psychiatry services: "The child psychiatry system was already very saturated, there it is extremely difficult to find even a place of hospitalization", she declared.
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"Saying 'no' to a teenager… it's extremely difficult"
“You can spend hours, whole afternoons, looking for a place. Saying 'no' to a child… it's extremely difficult,” she continues.
By his own admission, the successive confinements have had a deleterious effect on the mental health of the youngest, installing a form of weariness sometimes turning into psychological disorders.
"In child psychiatry, we have seen a major increase in requests for care, emergency visits, indications for hospitalization."
According to Angèle Consoli, the months of October and November were particularly trying.
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Faced with this distress, the child psychiatrist invites the adults to explain "with simple words" the situation to the youngest.
If "difficult times" could again emerge in some regions, with local confinements, Angèle Consoli believes that certain prospects lend to optimism: "Vaccination is a way out", she says, adding that spring may offer the opportunity to breathe.