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New tools have been added in recent years to the classic antidepressants and psychotherapies, to better face this serious and frequent disease.
“And long hells, without drums or music, parade slowly in my soul …” Charles Baudelaire called him « spleen », Today we call it depression. A widespread mental disorder in our society, since one in five people have been, is or will be affected in their lifetime. This serious disease – it can be fatal in the event of a suicidal crisis – has been progressing since 2010, and it has experienced unprecedented acceleration between 2017 and 2021, according to Public Health France.
What are we talking about precisely? Sadness, weariness and discouragement can touch everyone, whatever age, sex, conditions of existence: by feeling them, we are not necessarily depressed, and our discomfort is not necessarily pathological. Place a diagnosis of depression must therefore rely on international classifications of Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM-5), which listed the symptoms of people …