French Presidential: What rescue for mental health?

13 million people are affected by mental disorders in France.

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By: Caroline Paré Follow

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Before the French presidential election, the Priorité Santé team chose to devote a series of programs to the major challenges in terms of health on a national scale.

This week, we are talking about the crisis affecting psychiatry, while according to the Ministry of Solidarity and Health, one in five people is affected each year by a mental disorder.

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Of these 13 million people concerned in France, only 40% to 60% are supported.

While the suicide rate in France is one of the highest in European countries of comparable development, and the Covid crisis has brought to light the mental disorders from which the French suffer, mental health remains the poor relation of the tricolor system.

  • Dr Delphine Glachant,

    psychiatrist at

    the Murets hospital

    (Val-de-Marne) and president of

    the Union Syndicale de la Psychiatrie (USP)

    and member of

    Printemps de la psychiatrie

  • Stéphane Cognon

    , mediator-health-peer at

    the Paris University Hospital Group psychiatry & neurosciences

    for pole 15. Author of

    I'm back from a long trip, Candide in the land of schizophrenics

    , published by Frison-Roche 

  • Reporting by

    Igor Strauss

    in Rouen, Normandy

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