Covid-19: the third wave will be that of mental health!

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, anger too", described the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, stressing that "everyone can tip” and not just people who were already fragile before the pandemic.