Covid: will our mental health resist?

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How to work our concentration instead of scattering?

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By: Juliette Gheerbrant Follow

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The Covid pandemic and its inevitable procession of protection and distancing measures have led to a sharp drop in morale among the population.

According to a recent study by Public Health France, “34% of people questioned present an anxious or depressive state”.

They were 26.7% at the time of the first confinement.

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Young people suffer from isolation. 

In France, the government has just set up the “psy check”

 as well as a platform which offers students in distress three free consultations with a psychologist.

But some universities did not wait to react.

In Paris at the Sorbonne and Paris 2, workshops with an original approach are organized, like that of Catherine Delanoé: "Letting go and Yoga of laughter". 

Frédérique Lebel

 followed this hour of benevolence and relaxation led with great seriousness by this rigologist by profession!

Teleworking has become widespread over the past year, despite certain advantages, but it has deleterious effects on employees.

Usual in some countries such as the Netherlands and Finland, it is less so 

in Portugal

, a country already in the European leader in the consumption of psychotropic drugs.

Report by 

Marie-Line Darcy.

Caregivers have paid a heavy price for Covid ... According to the WHO, they were three times more likely to contract the disease than the rest of the population.  

In Spain,

 more than 4% of those infected are health workers, or around 118,000 people.

In the country which has just emerged from a third wave, the psychological repercussions of this extraordinary year are being felt hard, as our correspondent

Diane Cambon

tells us 

.

Towards a justice reform in France

Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti unveiled the main lines of the project which must be presented to the Council of Ministers.

Two points are controversial: the possibility of filming the trials and the abolition of automatic reductions in sentence.

What about our neighbors?

Some answers with 

Daniel Vigneron

, from the

myeurop.info

site 

.

Culture

Few theaters are open to the public today.

A frustration for the spectators and of course for the professionals in difficulty. 

In Turkey,

 some of them have launched the

Tiyatronet

platform 

 which broadcasts new theater shows, explains 

Anne Andlauer

.

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