“I was looking at the Seine and I said to myself: I throw myself, I can’t take it anymore,” says Yannick Noah, returning to his depression after his victory at Roland-Garros. Like him, a dozen personalities testify to their psychiatric disorders in a documentary which will be broadcast on May 6 on M6, presented Tuesday at the Ministry of Health. An initiative that is part of the national mobilization around mental health, erected in “great cause” by the government for the year 2025.
This film gives the floor to public figures from sport, music or spectacle, like swimmers Camille Lacourt and Florent Manaudou, actress Michèle Bernier or the Apple singer. By their side, anonymous, like Alain or Joséphine, evoke with modesty their daily battles against mental suffering.
A deep crisis in psychiatry
Bipolar disorders, depression, anxiety, schizophrenia or eating disorders: the pathologies mentioned are diverse, but all testimonies point to the same pain buried behind the social varnish. François Berléand, in particular, confides to live “in a permanent fiction” because of his schizophrenia. The magician Eric Antoine explains: “I wanted to be known because I wanted to be loved”, a quest for recognition born of a deep inner discomfort.
Our file on psychiatric disorders
Beyond the intimate, these speeches are praised by health professionals, who see it as a crucial lever to change mentalities. The fact remains that these courageous gestures are not enough to compensate for structural gaps: lack of means, difficult access to care, psychiatric desertification … The crisis remains deep. “For ten years, alerts have multiplied without strong political response,” deplored neurologist Sophie Crozier in January, a co -porter of an opinion from the Ethics Committee on the subject.
