2023-10-10 15:00:18
In France, one in two people will suffer from a mental disorder during their lifetime, and around one in five adults suffer from it at any time: more than 12 million people are affected each year, according to the 2023 report. “ Mental health in France and OECD countries », from the Institute for Research and Documentation in Health Economics.
The economic and social cost of psychiatric illnesses for the country was recently estimated at 109 billion euros per year ; moreover, these disorders constitute the leading cause of years of life lived with a disability and years of healthy life lost among 10-24 year olds.
These numbers illustrate the importance of mental health [alors que la Journée mondiale de la santé mentale est organisée, le 10 octobre, à l’initiative de l’Organisation mondiale de la santé et de la Fédération mondiale pour la santé mentale], and in particular psychiatry, as an individual and collective public health issue. However, we, people living with a mental disorder, families, caregivers, mental health professionals, actors in the social and medico-social sector, researchers, see every day the gap between declarations of intention on this subject and reality. .
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The reality is that between 40% and 60% of people living with a mental disorder today do not benefit from any care or support; that medical-psychological centers, day hospitals and psychiatric services are saturated and, due to a lack of suitable resources, early detection and treatment and the provision of diligent care remain wishful thinking.
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The reality is that almost 30% of psychiatrist positions and 50% of child psychiatrist positions are vacant in establishments meeting the public service mission.
The reality is that the use of coercive practices of isolation and restraint still remains massive; that medico-social and social support remains notoriously insufficient to support social, educational and professional inclusion.
The reality is that caregivers and care and support professionals are exhausted, and that people living with a mental disorder pay a high price: delay in access to care, disruption in care pathways. and life, heterogeneity of care depending on the territory, loss of opportunity, non-respect of fundamental rights, discrimination and social exclusion.
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