Homesickness – Health priority

Homesickness – Health priority
Homesickness – Health priority

Feeling of lack when you live far from your country of origin, from your loved ones, homesickness is characterized by different symptoms ranging from anxiety, sleep or appetite problems, including a feeling of loneliness or insecurity. Some of these symptoms (which are not linked to the degree of geographical distance) can also be similar to depression and feelings during times of mourning.

How to deal with this discomfort? How can you help a person who is homesick to get out of this melancholy state?

  • Dr Jean-Oscar MAKASSODoctor in clinical psychopathology and psychoanalysis. Ethnopsychologist, expert at the courts. Co-founder of the association maison Sunjata KEITACenter for Cultural Mediation and Psychological Assistance for Migrant Families

At the end of the program, on the occasion of World Leprosy Day, we talk about this chronic infectious disease which affects one person every three minutes, or more than 200,000 new cases per year in 128 countries. These figures would be underestimated due to the difficulties associated with screening. Interview with Dr Bertrand Cauchoixinternational leprosy expert and medical advisor to the Raoul Follereau Foundation.

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