Lucie Lucas confides in her violent burnout: “I felt like I was drifting”

Lucie Lucas is an emblematic actress of TF1, in the Clem series, where she holds the title role. She is also a young woman committed to ecology, going so far as to stand for election in her Breton town in 2021 on an ecological list alongside Daniel Cueff, the first elected to ban phytosanitary treatments in the immediate vicinity of homes. It is for her successes and her convictions that she was invited to speak with Louise Aubery for the In Power podcast.

The actress returned to the burn-out she suffered, “came in several years”, she says. One day, “I started to unlock”, says Lucie Lucas with frankness and emotion. It precisely describes the mechanisms of burnout, which handicap daily life: “I was putting my handbag in the fridge. Adrien (his spouse, editor’s note) said to me: ‘Can you make pasta for the children?’ I stood in front of the pan, I had no idea what to do. I was completely buggy. I didn’t know anything anymore. I felt like I had the autonomy of a two-year-old child. .”

The burn-out and the dark thoughts of Lucie Lucas

Lucie Lucas explains how damaging a burnout can be, through a feeling of guilt and the feeling of disappointing those around you. She describes the dark thoughts that ran through her: “When you’re a mom, you clearly have the idea that you have to end it”. She talks about dark and hard times: “We disappoint ourselves too”. In these moments, the actress also shows the importance of loved ones. First, so that they understand that these moments of depression and apathy are not directed against them. Also because their support is crucial to get your head above water: “I felt like I was drifting, and if no one picked me up, I couldn’t come back”. She adds, speaking of people experiencing burnout: “We have the impression that people don’t care (…) but the hard disk is saturated, it is not a will”.

How did she resurface? The meditation and yoga helped a lot. Aware that not everyone has the means, she specifies that many resources can be found on youtube. She also advises quite simply to stretch, to fully feel your body to relax it, “don’t be afraid to do super weird moves that feel good”. The key ? “Understand that, when the machine unlocks, it takes a long time to get back to how it was before”. You need a lot of patience, rest, getting away from screens: “we can’t take care of others when we’re not well”.