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Confinement, a source of mental suffering for one in five French people

2020-11-24T03:21:23.755Z


The country's psychiatric services have seen the wave rise in recent weeks.We are legitimately concerned about the influx into hospitals of patients with acute respiratory infections caused by Sars-CoV-2. But the Covid epidemic is also impacting the health of the French in another way, by plunging a growing proportion of our fellow citizens into a well of mental suffering. "For me, it is an epidemic that has an infectious and a psychiatric component, which widens the spe


We are legitimately concerned about the influx into hospitals of patients with acute respiratory infections caused by Sars-CoV-2.

But the Covid epidemic is also impacting the health of the French in another way, by plunging a growing proportion of our fellow citizens into a well of mental suffering.

"For me, it is an epidemic that has an infectious and a psychiatric component, which widens the spectrum of those affected by the same amount"

, summarizes Professor Pierre-Michel Llorca, director of care at the FondaMental Foundation, who participates to an international COH-FIT study.

According to the latest estimates from Public Health France (SPF), 21% of French people had a depressive state at the beginning of November (characterized by persistent sadness, gloomy thoughts, fatigue or the disappearance of usual desires and pleasures).

This is almost double the 11% observed at the end of September, and about the same level as around April 20, at the heart of the first wave.

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