If confinement is an ordeal for some, others on the other hand can deal with it very well, a fortiori if they do not work. This is the case of Mégane, who, in full doubt, took advantage of her compulsory professional break to reject all that she had to accomplish at work. But the other side of the coin: with the approach of deconfinement, she depressed at the idea of returning to the office. In "Sans Rendez-vous" on Europe 1, sexologist and psychoanalyst Catherine Blanc believes that this feeling comes from the fact that she took advantage of the moment to flee reality and bury her head in the sand, a bit like an ostrich.
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The Mégane question
"I found a lot of comfort in this confinement. It put on hold everything I had to accomplish professionally, while I doubted myself. Yet now I am depressed and I do not understand why. What do you think? "
Catherine Blanc's response
"Mégane felt better because she was not confronted with the reading which she has of herself, perhaps failing or less able. This confinement gave her the opportunity to start again in her cave and not being in the act. So it brought him a lot of comfort. "
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Have people in burnout had the opportunity to reset the meters to zero with containment?
"Yes, they had plenty of time to find a biological respect for their rhythm, the reconsideration of their situation, and their submission to the hierarchy. This being so, the return to reality will take place and it implies being in ability to take back one's place in the world with enough self-confidence to register in a singularity. That is to say, without evaluating oneself in relation to the neighbor and having reconsidered what to say, do, but also the limits to be posed to consider his work in a perennial way for oneself. "
Should Mégane take advantage of confinement to consult a psychologist?
"This is a particularly opportune moment, since we have time to step back and listen to what is at work in itself. We can therefore analyze what is wrong to find our own solutions rather than taking the confinement like a flight, a bit like an ostrich that puts its head in the sand. Fear does not cancel the danger, and it is by confronting it that one can move in life, in particular professional. "
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Is this depression similar to that of the end of vacation, just before returning to work?
"Generally, it is people who have not had enough rest who are depressed during this period. This feeling reflects a questioning of our limits: when they seem accessible, confrontation with reality can scare us. So we have to be vigilant not to leave defeated before the start of the race. "