Covid-19 and depression
The prevalence of depressive states more than doubled between September and November 2020 (Public Health France) © iStock / martin-dm
By: Caroline Paré Follow
2 min
The persistence of the Covid-19 pandemic, with lockdowns and restrictions, in certain regions of the world is affecting the morale of the populations and, to a certain extent, their mental health.
Publicity
According to surveys conducted by
Public Health France
, the prevalence of depressive states has more than doubled between September and November 2020. This health crisis weighs even more on young people who feel isolation, a feeling of abandonment, financial distress.
How to deal with your depression
What goes on in the brains of young people?
How does the current situation affect their mind?
And how do you succeed in re-positively?
Pr Antoine Pelissolo,
psychiatrist and head of department at the
Henri-Mondor Hospital in Créteil in Val-de-Marne
.
Author of
You are your best psy published in the editions
(Flammarion and I read)
Dr Laure Menguene
, psychiatrist at Jamot hospital in Yaoundé, responsible for mental health at the Cameroon health ministry, responsible for the psychological care unit as part of the response to the Covid.
Pr Angèle Consoli,
child psychiatrist in the adolescent child psychiatry department at
the Pitié Salpêtrière hospital
, newly integrated into the Scientific Council.
Paul Legrand
, second undergraduate student in law at the Faculty of Law and Political Science of Montpellier, testifies to the impact of the health crisis on his mental health
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