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Free speech around mental health seems to have happened, especially since the Covid-19 outbreak, but is it really helping us get better? This is the subject of the franceinfo “Talk”. Every evening from 6 p.m., Manon Mella and her guests debate with Internet users on the franceinfo Twitch channel.
In France, one person in five is affected each year by a mental disorder, i.e. 13 million people. In a recently published survey, experts from Public Health France state that “the health crisis had had a lasting and significant effect on the mental health of the population”mental health which is also in the process of particularly worsening among those under 24 years of age.
The theme of mental health is present everywhere: on social networks, in songs, in the applications of our smartphones… But does it really help us? Is mental health really taken seriously? Has the health crisis really given it a place in the public debate?
Dr Marion Leboyer, psychiatrist, researcher at Inserm, director of the FondaMental foundation, Dr Dominique Monchablon, psychiatrist and head of service at the Relais Etudiants-Lycéens de Paris, and Mickaël Worms-Ehrminger, creator of the podcast “Les Maux Bleus”, are in the Talk franceinfo to talk about it.
Despite this wide prevalence of mental disorders, 40% to 60% of people who experience them are not supported, according to the Mutualité française, a federation of mutual insurance companies. However, this is the category of pathologies which represents the highest cost for Medicare, recalls the Ministry of Health. Weak care all the more damaging as mental disorders are closely linked to other forms of illness. People with depression, for example, are 30% less likely to be in good cardiovascular health, notes Inserm.
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