Is Psychiatry Scary?
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Psychiatric pathologies are a source of great suffering and stigmatization of patients.
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By: Caroline Paré Follow
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While populations are increasingly aware of the issue of mental illness through testimonies and works of fiction evoking pathologies such as schizophrenia, high-level autism or depression, the general public can still have an image incorrectly supported.
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The treatment of many of these psychiatric pathologies is still the subject of fantasies, fears and taboos which are a source of great suffering and stigmatization of patients and their relatives and can lead to harmful delays in care.
Better knowledge and better understanding of these diseases and the possibilities for treatment is essential.
How to lift the taboos on psychiatric hospitalization?
What are the modes of access to care or what to do in the event of suspicious disorders?
Dr Boris Chaumette
, psychiatrist at
GHU Paris Psychiatrie et Neurosciences
in Paris.
Researcher in the
INSERM U1266
unit
.
Doctor in Psychiatry and Neurosciences, studying the genetics and epigenetics of psychiatric disorders in particular schizophrenia.
Prof. Samuel Mampunza,
neuropsychiatrist, former dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Kinshasa, former dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the Protestant University in Congo, and current academic secretary general (vice-rector) of the
Protestant University in Congo (UPC) )
.
Current President of the African Mental Health Society (SASM)
Stéphane Cognon
, peer-practitioner in mental health since September 2018. Author of
I return from a long journey, candid in the land of schizophrenics
,
published by Frison-Roche.
He gives his testimony on his experience of mental illness, which affected him at the age of 20.
Go further :
The
“Psy IdF” platform is
becoming a toll-free number for information, guidance and psychological and psychiatric counseling for all Ile-de-France residents.
The
01 48 00 48 00
is a freephone number, available from 11h to 19h 7d / 7.
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