The disorder affects nearly 20% of the French population. Malta Mueller/Getty Images
OUR TIPS – Never has the future seemed so uncertain. In such a harmful climate, some brains saturate and give signals. Psychiatrist’s advice for a better life.
It just takes a little bit. A text message from his bank, an office colleague coughing, birds on the runway… and 42-year-old Chartered Accountant Elliott’s brain goes into overdrive. “SMS will tell me that my accounts are empty, my partner has Covid, worse, I will be infected with a new version, the birds will be caught in the reactor and my plane will be destroyed…” These flashes are often accompanied by a chill. sweat, heart pounding, panic gripped him. The epidemic years tested it well, and so did the invasion of Ukraine. Quadra says she often can’t leave her house. “I have always been a restless person. When I was a child, the long vacations were not happy for me, because I knew that they were announcing that part in another class, which I was unfamiliar with, and which I imagined must be terrible,” he recalls.
Anxiety is not uncommon, but it is the most common psychiatric disorder today, with nearly 20% of…
Source: Le Figaro
