He lived in the dark for a long time, and if Jérémy Ferrari was suffering, it was partly because he didn’t understand anything that was wrong with him… This October 10, 2023, in an interview given to Mouloud Achour, for ” Clique”, the laughter star revealed that he had done “awesome rehab after suicide attempt“, and that in contact with “lots of therapists, behaviorists“, he had solved a mystery that had lasted too long.
“I did this treatment, they said ‘yes, yes, there are things’”
Indeed, now aged 38, he explains: “I had been experiencing diagnostic wandering for 20 years, I had been going to see psychologists since I was 14 because I knew I had things in my head and everyone told me ‘no, you have nothing, you don’t ‘you have nothing, you have nothing’. And when I did this treatment they said ‘yes, yes, there are things’. So I said well there you go and they started giving me lots of tests”.
The verdict came quickly, he remembers: “And among the lot, I was told that I was HP (high potential). It changed absolutely nothing in my life anyway. I left school in second grade, I was terrible at school, I’m still terrible. It’s true that we often say that HPs can have difficulty integrating but I think it was a complete block that I had in my head which meant that I didn’t integrate anyway. .
“It scares me for the child”
Now out of the impasse, Jérémy Ferrari, who was able to get help, wants to raise awareness among the general public about mental health problems. He admits: “I was diagnosed late, my parents raised me in a very normal way and it’s not bad sometimes”.
And to reveal: “But I know that since I started saying what I say on stage, I have had a lot of parents who write to me. They tell me ‘my child is 7 years old’ and I feel the parents are extremely stressed to learn that he has an attention disorder with hyperactivity, or he is high potential”. If he wants to inform people about these new syndromes, Jérémy Ferrari also has a fear: “It actually scares me for the child because I tell myself to be careful, even if you start treating him as if he were abnormal he will feel abnormal.”
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