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Confinement: faced with the solitude of the French, listening platforms are mobilized

2020-04-02T06:21:49.695Z


Lack of social interaction, anxiety, seclusion ... The calls to associations explode.


The French have been confined for fifteen days. For some, loneliness increases a form of anxiety. The impossibility of speaking, the lack of social interaction, the concern at the idea of ​​a necessary seclusion but whose end date is unknown ... Faced with this anxiety, the listening platforms mobilize and record a number increasing calls.

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“Since the start of confinement, we have received 500 additional calls every day, or 7,000 in total. This past week, we recorded an increase of 10%, ” notes Alain Mathiot, president of the association SOS Amitié, which has 1,700 volunteers. “Among the people who call us, there are the regulars, that is to say those who asked us before confinement, and then there are the first callers. We are trying to deal with them first. ” According to Alain Mathiot, more than a quarter of the calls mention "the problem of confinement and the fear of the virus" . The average age of those dialing the number (09

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Source: lefigaro

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