Yvan * is 15 years old and he never leaves his home.
Since the start of the pandemic, this college student has spent 15 hours a day in front of his computer.
Connected to the
World of Warcraft network,
he falls asleep around 6 a.m. to wake up in the afternoon.
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At first, he used to tell his parents to
“manage his online lessons”,
but he dropped out of school. At the first confinement, the latter
"lost control of the uses of their son, caught in a state of anxious astonishment"
, says the child psychiatrist Catherine Lacour Gonay, medical manager of the assessment and care center for adolescents (Cesa), in Seine et Marne. On duty one spring evening, she saw this family in crisis disembark at the large hospital in the east of the Ile-de-France (GHEF).
“Yvan had become extremely aggressive as soon as his parents tried to limit the use of the computer. He had violently jostled his mother. The tension at home, during teleworking, had become untenable, ”she
reports. The middle schooler
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