While a study reveals that the mental health of young people is worse among high school students than among middle school students, Marina Starotska, sector manager at Fil Santé Jeunes, confirms an increase in worrying calls.
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Public Health France unveiled on Tuesday April 9 a study on the mental health of young people: while most consider themselves in good general health, among high school students, a quarter say they have had suicidal thoughts in the last twelve months, and more girls than boys. According to this study, one in ten high school students has also attempted suicide, a trend that has worsened since 2018.
“We have had an upsurge, since Covid, in calls concerning unhappiness”confirms Tuesday April 9 on franceinfo Marine Starostka, sector manager on Fil Santé Jeunes, a remote prevention system for the mental, physical and social health of young people aged 12 to 25 (filsantejeunes.com 0800 235 236).
Feeling of loneliness
Le Fil Santé Jeunes is contacted by many young people to discuss “a feeling of loneliness”there are also “concern about their future, about academic pressure, but also about their financial and relational future… And there is also a lot of eco-anxiety”namely a feeling of anxiety linked to their helplessness in the face of themes linked to climate and environmental threats, detailed Marine Starostka. Another change in the calls received, a component “very worrying and important is that of violence, such as intra-family violence, and all that is sexual and gender-based violence.”
Despite the end of containment measures linked to Covid, “there are no longer the problems of isolation” for young people, “but the feeling of loneliness lasts a little bit”explains Marine Starostka. “It is an event which can change the way of being towards others, the way of being towards the environment and which actually contributes to a large part of these psychological difficulties”she testifies.