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Learn "the words that save" to become a mental health first aid worker

2021-11-28T22:17:25.939Z


Since 2019, the PSSM France association has trained more than 12,000 people in this new kind of first aid.


In a few minutes, Valérie Beaufeist loses her footing in a conversation about her last vacation.

With a vague look, she forgets the questions asked and becomes suspicious: Sabrina Paris, trainer of First Aid in mental health, whispers in her ear

“the little voices”

, of those that some patients with auditory hallucinations can hear.

"It's difficult to keep track when a voice tells us that the person in front is 'a spy'"

, understands the young woman.

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The day before, in this meeting room of a Bordeaux hotel, the twelve participants in this training of a new kind studied depressive disorders, bipolarity and suicidal behavior.

Since 2019, the First Aid in Mental Health Association (PSSM) has been training mental health first aiders without any prerequisites.

Through role-playing games, sketches, testimonies, exercises and works of art, the trainees tame psychic disorders, to adopt a less

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Source: lefigaro

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