2023-09-16 12:10:49
Diagnostic bipolar at age 35, he shared his story with Pascale De La Tour du Pin during the show “PAF” on C8. In the 90s, Sylvain Augier was an iconic face of French television, at the helm of hit shows such as “La Carte aux Trésors” and “Faut pas rêver”. (source 1) During the program “PAF” on C8, the 68-year-old presenter, also author of a new book entitled “I come back from afar”, opened a window on his fight once morest depression and bipolar illness.
His bipolar diagnosis at the age of 35 radically changed the course of his life. This period saw Sylvain Augier spend a considerable amount of money, up to his limit.
“I experienced an extraordinary week at the finish of the Route du Rhum in 1990. It plunged me into excessive excitement, a circular mania, and I rented planes and boats to take everyone journey.”
He goes on to explain: “I made the most of it, like a king, then I came back to Paris and suddenly, following a live radio broadcast, I was hit by a violent, suicidal depression, and I thought I wouldn’t be able to cope.” He was then diagnosed with bipolar disorder type 1. Although shocked, he was not surprised.
“It’s genetic. My father and my grandfather were bipolar… I inherited this condition as much as possible,” he explains.
Faced with this harsh reality, Sylvain Augier considered suicide, as he revealed in his book and during the “PAF” show: “I was devastated, I thought I wouldn’t make it, that’s why I placed my life in front of a TGV, telling me that it was better to end it right away, to escape this unbearable pain.” It was his children and his family who gave him the strength to persevere. The life of Sylvain Augier was not free from challenges. Ousted from France Télévisions without explanation, he has already had to fight to his survival following a serious paragliding accident in 1988. Injured in the foot, he refused amputation and spent more than a year in the hospital, becoming dependent on synthetic morphine along the way.
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