ROUEN, France – The 22-year-old, panicked, is taken to consultation room 2, with his floor easy to clean and a honeycomb mesh over the window. Behind her, the heavy double doors of the psychiatric emergency room, which can only be opened with a member’s key, were suddenly closed.
With worried brooches of his white sneakers, he tells a psychiatrist on call how the loneliness of coronavirus lockdown and the anguish of not finding paintings in the pandemic hard work market contribute to his whirlwind of anxiety. obsessed with knives, fearing that her sanity will collapse.
“The lockdown, let’s not pretend otherwise, worries me,” explains the young woman through her surgical mask, while the psychiatrist, Irene Facello, listens attentively.
“I need to be reassured,” says the woman, “I don’t go crazy. “
Forcing millions of others to stay home, isolating them from their families and friends, closing the business they invested in, the college courses that fueled their minds, and the nightclubs where they socialized, for now, has begun to oppose the resurgence. France took him in November beyond the dark threshold of 52,000 dead.
But the prices of intellectual aptitude have been considerable. While the number of French patients with COVID-19 in resuscitation is now declining, psychiatrists face a wave of intellectual distress. The fitness authorities’ survey indicates the maximum acute outbreak of depression among other unemployed people, others with financial difficulties and young adults.
Rouvray Hospital in the Norman city of Rouen is one of the places where psychiatrists are located on the front line of intellectual aptitude and have an effect on the pandemic. They are concerned that a developing crisis of depression, anxiety and worse is coming as more livelihoods, future and hope have been lost due to the pandemic. Associated Press reporters spent 10 hours at the 535-bed facility, a day after French President Emmanuel Macron presented a plan to gradually lift closing restrictions.
In the psychiatric emergency room, while Facello sends the 22-year-old home on an anti-anxiety prescription and an appointment to see her in two weeks, the double doors open.
She is a 25-year-old linguistics student and is directed to consultation room number one, where she sits silently in the dark at nightfall.
On the department’s board, which lists patient names and details, an abbreviated initial handwritten diagnosis on a piece of paper uses acronyms to explain how close it would have been to the irreparable. During the following week, he said, he had suffered from “IDS” (suicidal ideation) and had imagined “IMV”, or drinking drugs voluntarily.
The department’s leading psychiatrist, Sandrine Elias, gently mocks the student about how the lockdown left her alone, with suspended categories.
This is not the only cause of your discomfort. Elijah learns that the young woman had a complicated adolescence, with suicide attempts. Isolation from the epidemic only exacerbated the student’s anguish. In a calm voice, he tells Elijah that “we face ourselves. “
“I’m a self-grown person, this absolute restriction is a real burden,” he says.
Elijah temporarily makes the decision to hospitalize him. Supervised rest and medication, Says Elias, can help.
“You want a frame, to keep in mind. On your own, in your study, this is possible,” the psychiatrist says. It’s wonderful that you got here. “
Not everyone who asks for help has a psychiatric history. Mental conditioning professionals say confinement and curfews have also destabilized other people who, in less difficult times, can succeed over tricks by talking to a circle of family and friends rather than ending up in psychiatric rehabilitation services.
“Being between 4 walls is terrible,” Elijah said, leaving a life like this affects people. It’s not good. “
Nathan, a 22-year-old student, arrived in the emergency room two days earlier, the paper shows that he entered at 5:20 p. m. and was transferred that night to a longer tenure unit.
There, in room 14, he told psychiatrist Olivier Guillin that he had asked for emergency assistance “because he felt that my morale decayed very quickly, that I was about to overturn, with suicidal thoughts.
Similar minds had first depressed him this summer, after France’s initial closure from March to May. They counterattacked when the country was confined for the time being from 30 October. Your university has closed its doors. His political science courses have become virtual. Instead of being alone in his student apartment, he returned to his parents’ home in Rouen, separated from his network and ruminating about his dubious future.
“The first lock didn’t affect me much,” he tells Guillin, but the moment “sank me. “
“Being confined again, having to stay within a limited area, not being able to see my friends as often as usual, that bothered me,” he says.
The protection of hospitalization and medications began to stabilize him temporarily, resting on his bedside table a bucket of Rubik’s that he had solved.
Guillin, who runs several groups in the hospital and has two hundred doctors under his command, says they are seeing a sharp increase in the number of young adults seeking help with anxiety, depression, substance abuse and other difficulties. position for more.
“We’ll probably see maximum wave crest in the coming months,” he said.
The pandemic has also had effects on intellectual aptitude that are less obvious but no less devastating.
Guillin still mourns the death of a patient who committed suicide in the first lockout, 48 hours after which she turned out to be her last date, dressed in a mask in the assembly to protect he hemselves from the virus, which interfered with her reading of the intensity of her anguish, she said.
“She’s a very expressive woman and now, with the mask, I misjudged things,” she says. “In retrospect, I think maybe, without the mask, I would have been more alert and done more. “
Patients were injured by diverting intellectual fitness resources to fight COVID-19.
The electroconvulsive treatment that helped Laura, a student, get out of her severe depression destabilized when anesthesiologists, who are needed to put her to sleep as electric currents pass through her brain, were confiscated to treat patients inflamed by the virus.
“My morale deteriorated soon after and suicide returned,” he told Guillin.
Laura says that for her, treatment is “as urgent as COVID-19. “He says prioritizing viral patients “is a little stupid and petty. “Now, if she left the hospital in mid-November as expected, Laura had stayed.
In the ER, for the third time in two hours, another young woman enters through the double doors, dressed in black, hollow, as room 1 is already occupied by the 25-year-old girl, the 18-year-old. The best student in the school shows up in Room 2. After his first verbal exchange with a nurse and caregiver, he huddled in his chair.
Nurse Sébastien Lormelet and caregiver Anita Delarue exchange notes in the room where the teen’s call and check-in time are inscribed on the black marker on the board, 5:02 p. m.
“The lock has a lot to do with it because it says the first is hard. With the second, now, if I could sneak away, I would,” says Delarue.
“She doesn’t want a third. “
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