Mental health of the French: "The impression of a generalized burnout, people are doing very badly"
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What are the effects of the health crisis on our mental health?
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By: Julien Coquelle-Roëhm
8 mins
Following the alert from psychiatric professionals, and after the result of the CoviPrev investigation, conducted by Public Health France, a meeting is being held this Monday, March 22 in Matignon to discuss the mental health of the French.
Increased care in psychiatric services, and in particular for young patients, suicide attempts, depression, anxiety, the French are doing badly.
How to explain it?
Elements of answer with doctor Serge Hefez, psychiatrist, head of the family unit in the child and adolescent psychiatry department at the Parisian hospital of La Pitié-Salpêtrière.
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Serge Hefez
is the author of
Transitions: Réinventer le genre
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Calmann Lévy
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