2023-04-20 14:37:21
While in France, between 8 and 11 million people support a person with a disability or loss of autonomy, the FondaMental Foundation and the National Union of Families and Friends of Sick and/or Mentally Disabled People (Unafam) are launching, with the support of Klesia, a new campaign to support carers of people living with a mental disorder and provide them with resources to take care of themselves and their loved ones.
This joint work gave rise to two information campaigns for caregivers of people living with mental disorders in order to provide them with practical sheets, videos of testimonials from recovered people and caregivers, and interviews with experts.
“Caregivers are inseparable from the recovery process”, explains Dr. Romain Rey, head of the Fundamental Schizophrenia Expert Center in Lyon and CLAP, the Lyon Center for Psychiatric Caregivers (Le Vinatier Hospital). “Their contribution has a direct impact on the recovery journey of their loved one. However, their involvement can have an impact on their physical and mental health and isolate them. There is no health without mental health, which is why it is essential that caregivers have resources available to them. With CLAP and in partnership with Unafam, our goal is to sustainably connect caregivers to a network of professionals and peers on whom to rely, through actions such as this one or the BREF psychoeducation program. »
The objective of this campaign is to de-stigmatize mental disorders and to restore hope to carers and their loved ones, thanks to psychoeducational content and practical solutions.es :
• 7 videos True or false? accessible on youtube, contain testimonials from doctors, caregivers and people who have recovered to break down preconceived ideas regarding mental disorders.
1. True or false? Schizophrenia is a split personality.
2. True or false? Bipolarity is a simple change of mood
3. True or false? Depression can hide bipolar disorder
4. True or false? Teen anxiety can be serious
5. True or false? My loved one is not sick, it’s just the cannabis
6. True or false? You can be a caregiver and be under 18
7. True or false? My loved one refuses any help, there is nothing more to do.
• 10 practical sheets including key resources to support caregivers in their daily lives with their loved one:
1. Why is my loved one discharged from the hospital when they are not yet fully stabilized?
2. How is a diagnosis made in psychiatry? Why can a diagnosis change over time?
3. What do caregivers offer when a person is agitated in hospital?
4. What do family associations offer carers?
5. How do I request caregiver leave? What procedures vis-à-vis my employer if I have to be absent for my loved one?
6. I had my loved one hospitalized without their consent, how can I tell them regarding it?
7. Psychiatric disorders: what to say to our loved ones, families and friends?
8. What is the difference between long-term treatment and crisis treatment?
9. How to improve communication between caregivers and caregivers?
10. My relative has just returned from the hospital: what should I do?
« By supporting a loved one to cope with illness and mental disability, the whole family is impacted, testifies Marie-Jeanne Richard, President of Unafam. Discussing with other families who accompany their loved ones in a recovery project helps to maintain hope. These non-judgmental exchanges help caregivers not to isolate themselves and to regain theirrthat of moving forward. «
• Press release Paris, April 7, 2023 “The FondaMental Foundation and Unafam are launching, with the support of Klesia, a second campaign to help relatives of people living with a mental disorder”, April 7, 2023.
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