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Four psychiatrists and a psychoanalyst called Thursday, November 3 the government to "take action" urgently so that all French people who need it can access psychiatric care, while the health crisis increases the needs.The Covid-19 pandemic generates many “collateral” diseases, such as mental disorders. “The third psychiatric wave is here,” warn psychiatrists Rachel Bocher, Serge Hefez, Marion Leboyer and Marie-Rose Moro, and philosopher and psychoanalyst Cynthia Fleury in a press release.  They thus take up the words of the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, who assured on November 18 that the government wanted “at all costs to avoid a third wave, which would be that of mental health”.  “We must act and we must act quickly,” pleaded Serge Hefez during an online press conference, regretting that Emmanuel Macron did not mention the subject during his speech on November 24."We see the emergence of symptoms: fatigue, mental stupefaction, fear, anxiety, anxiety, insomnia, ang...

“Today we have a health problem which affects our children and adolescents, which adds to the epidemic”, declared the Head of State, during a meeting with caregivers in the child psychiatry department of the CHU. of Reims (Marne).  To help children and adolescents in psychological distress, Emmanuel Macron announced on Wednesday that they could benefit from a "psychiatric package".  The latter will allow 100% reimbursement of 10 psychologist sessions in town for children and adolescents from 3 to 17 years old, throughout the crisis.   Child psychiatry services, which have been understaffed for a long time, are overwhelmed.  “We are seeing something rise that we had not experienced during the first confinement, anxiety and anxieties among the youngest which were reflected in the figures”, underlined Emmanuel Macron, citing a 40% increase in emergencies. pediatrics.  According to the head of the child psychiatry department of the CHU of Reims, Anne-Catherine Rolla...

A Malabar pink dawn flatters the sleeping horses on the Sacré-Coeur carousel when the CM2A enter their class, nestled on the top floor of the Foyatier school, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. Old-fashioned blackboards, creaking parquet floors, latched windows on the slate roofs… Cliché oblige, we watch for the smell of Cleopatra glue when the cases unzip. But no, nothing. Under a mask, you feel nothing at all. Can the mini-noses sticking out here and there still smell anything else? You should do a test! In this class, since last month, there have been two “competitions”: the reading rally and the Covid test rally.  Who is the swab champion?  The fingers rise with the rest of the body: 28 tests on my left… 33 in the second row!  “33 tests, all negative”, boasts behind his mask and his pair of glasses Samuel, slightly styling this big guy Enzo.  And everyone recounted their war wounds: “At the beginning, my mother would spin 13 times in the nose instead of 5 to be...