2023-09-24 20:00:24
By Anne Prigent
Published 1 hour ago, Updated 1 hour ago
Adolescence is a period of emotional fragility during which there are many sources of stress. 97124095/Sabphoto – stock.adobe.com
SURVEY – Three years after the appearance of Covid, more children and adolescents express deep unease. Which concerns professionals.
“Lou has always been a funny little girl, full of life… So we were very surprised when, at 12, she asked us to see a psychologist. She had nighttime fears, afraid that someone would come and kill her. She tells me that it has nothing to do with it, but these anxieties arose shortly after the mother of one of her friends was killed by her ex-husband not far from the school., says Maria. Today, Lou is 14 years old and has been followed for a year in a medical-psychological center. His anxieties are still there. Lou is one of the 1.6 million under-18s who, as the Court of Auditors recalled last March, suffer from profound discomfort. That’s 13% of them!
The Covid-19 pandemic is no stranger to this. Anxiety, depression, school phobia, eating disorders and above all suicide attempts exploded after confinement. “Arrivals to emergency departments for crisis situations increased by 30% at the end of 2020. We expected…
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