Caregivers and mental health
How to reconcile his life as a caregiver, with his professional & family life?
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By: Caroline Paré Follow
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In France, nearly 11 million people take care of an elderly, sick or disabled loved one every day.
Among them, relatives of people with psychiatric pathologies, such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorders.
Some patients also use their experience and expertise (sometimes supplemented by training) to support their peers.
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How do these caregivers look?
What is peer support?
What relationship unites them to the caregivers and the patient?
How to reconcile his life as a caregiver, with his professional & family life?
How to set limits?
What solutions to bring to what can become a daily ordeal?
Prof. Christophe Lançon
, Head of the Psychiatry and Addictology Department of the
University Hospitals of Marseille Conception
Sabrina Palumbo
, coach specializing in the support of eating disorders, peer health mediator.
Author of the work
Voices of recovery - the mediation of peer support
, published by Frison-Roche.
Godmother of
solidarity associations anorexia bulimia
.
Cécile Glaser
, peer helper
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