Conference on mental health in Beauvais: “Going to the psychiatrist does not mean you are crazy”

Lmental health is a very taboo subject; we mix depression and depression; we minimize the problems. We really need to change things, better train psychologists and nurses, mobilize National Education to identify young people who are in difficulty. But for this, means are needed. » This Thursday, November 7, the journalist and doctor Marina Carrère d’Encausse was the guest of honor at the conference on mental health organized by the Picard mailin partnership with CCMO mutual and UniLaSalle Beauvais.

At the heart of this meeting, which attracted more than 350 people to the UniLaSalle Beauvais institute: mental health, the taboos surrounding it and which must be lifted, and the glaring lack of resources from which this part of medicine suffers.

“Psychiatry is the poor relation of medicine in general”

However, these pathologies were particularly highlighted at the end of the health crisis. And yet, “ psychiatry is really the poor relation of medicine in general, notes Marina Carrère d’Encausse, when she needs immediate support. » And yet, in France, every year, one in five French people suffer from a psychological disorder. This represents 13 million people. Disorders which can be treated with delay and which could then worsen.

In this regard, the Prime Minister’s decision to declare mental health a major national cause is rather encouraging for the six speakers invited to speak this Thursday evening. Around Marina Carrère d’Encausse, Professor Louis Jehel, professor of psychiatry at the University of Picardie Jules-Verne, head of the psychiatry, liaison psychology and addictology department at the Amiens-Picardie University Hospital, Professor Jean-Pierre Pruvo, head of the neuroradiology department at Lille University Hospital, Florence Prévost, general director at Holicare, Dr Clément Duret, head of the occupational pathologies service unit at Garches hospital, APHP, and medical director of Holicare, and Patricia Cocq, head of educational mission and student life UniLasalle Amiens.

Feel good in your body and in your mind

The first taboo to be lifted according to Professor Louis Jehel is to stop thinking that going to a psychiatrist means that you are crazy. This can also involve better understanding your emotions and what mental illnesses really are. Patricia Cocq cites the example of Scandinavian countries whose teachers talk about emotions from the first years of school. “ We must also combine physical well-being and mental well-being, underlines Marina Carrère d’Encausse. If you feel good in your body, you feel good in your head. » Talking about it, too, helps establish the place of mental health in society.

And this conference made it possible. “ Our mission is to inform, but also to animate a territory », Estimates David Guévart, general director of Picard mailof The new Aisne and of Paris Normandy. Other conferences on the theme of health will be organized by the media, as part of a highlight called “We take care of you”.