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EDITORIAL. We must act quickly for mental health. A sector already hard hit by the Covid-19. In France, 13 million people are victims of mental pathologies.
By Nicolas Baverez
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Shen the WHO lifted the state of global health emergency concerning the Covid-19 epidemic, which killed more than 20 million people, highlights the priority of mental health. Of the 8 billion people on our planet, one person in five suffers from psychiatric disorders and one in a hundred from schizophrenia.
In France, before the epidemic, 13 million people were victims of mental pathologies: depression (8.8% of the population), bipolar disorders (1.2 to 5.5%) and autism spectrum disorders ( 1%). The pandemic has led to a spectacular deterioration in the state of mental health of the French, both due to the disease – the Covid causing neuropsychiatric symptoms in a third of those infected – and the disorders created by the confi…