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It is a public utility program, which is broadcast on M6, this Tuesday, May 6, 2025: Mental health, breaking the taboo. In this documentary directed by Juliette Paquin, anonymous, but above all celebrities, confide without taboos on THE mental health disorders of which they have been (or are still) victims. These testimonies aim to break the omerta which reigns, today, around this concern: according to the channel, 70 % of French people consider mental health as taboo. Yet, 13 million inhabitants are affected in Francealmost one in five people. Psychic disorders also represent the leading cause of mortality among young people aged 15 to 35. In this documentary, Yannick Noah, Camille Lacourt, Apple or Michèle Bernier confides as never they have done. But the program also collects the testimony of a great French actor: François Berléand.
In this salutary documentary, we learn that the actor, that we loved so much in the saga The carrier or in The choristers, “suffered from paranoia, mythomania and schizophrenic disorders”. “Often, I ask myself the question ‘who I am?’testifies François Berléand. And I have no answer. I am in a permanent fiction. It’s very funny what I could make myself in my head. “ Child, the actor remembers what extent he was very fan of the television series The invisible man. He too, little, dreamed of being invisible. So he persuaded himself that he was. Until this day when he undoubtedly undressed, during a math control, at school, convinced that it was his clothes that prevented him from implementing this power … “It was the start of the boredoms”recalls François Berléand, in this documentary broadcast on M6.
-“He sees a child … a little limited intellectually”
The actor of Don’t tell anyonewho celebrated his 73th birthday on April 22, 2025, says that his mother, worried, took him to consult specialists in psychological disorders, to know what his son suffered. “My mother had told me ‘you are going to take tests (…) These are games’ “says François Berléand.
The 73-year-old comedian remembers this childcareman’s meeting as if it was yesterday. “He makes me sit … and he waits. Me, when I am not asked any questions, I don’t speak. The time is a bit long … (…) And he says to me ‘put your right hand on your left leg’. And there, the phrase told me that my mother comes back to me … So what is the game … Ah, it’s Jacques said! He didn’t say ‘Jacques said’, so I don’t do it. “ The doctor repeats his request to the young François Berléand. “Do you understand?”questions the child psychiatrist. “I say to myself ‘he must play neither yes, nor no’, continues the actor. And he sees a child … a little limited intellectually. The machine was launched.” The testimony of François Berléand, as well as those of many other celebrities, including the swimmer Florent Manaudou, the humorist Constance or the host Eric Antoine, are to be discovered in Mental health: Breaking the taboo On M6.
