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Paris, Thursday, July 5, 2018 – Studies concerning the
mental health and well-being of health students follow one another
and, unfortunately, are alike. If all are discomfort
evident among this population who engaged in studies
very long, hyper selective and often exhausting, the last
as published in the October issue of Journal of Affective
disorders isolates increased vulnerability among
Psychiatry.
The French study which covered 2165 interns including 302 in
psychiatry paints a rather alarming picture of the relationship that these
with psychoactive products and their
psychological state in general. We learn that they are
proportionally more numerous than their internal colleagues
three other specialties included in the study (surgery, anesthesia
resuscitation and general medicine) to smoke tobacco, drink
alcohol, use drugs and resort to
antidepressants and anxiolytics
A quarter under ecstasy
In detail, the future psychiatrists surveyed are thus 12%
to report an addiction to cannabis, twice as much as in
the other specialties. In addition to excessive consumption
of 40% of them, psychiatric staff members have a
tend to experiment in larger proportions than
their colleagues all kinds of drugs with properties
hallucinogens (fungi, LSD) or psychostimulants such as
amphetamines. They are also nearly a quarter to confess consume
occasionally, even regularly, ecstasy, against 17%
among other interns. In the end, one-third of them have already
consulted a psychiatrist, twice as much as their future
confreres.
These results have surprised even the authors themselves
expected to detect greater psychological distress
in student anesthetists or surgeons than in those who
are destined for psychiatry. Besides the possibility, controversial,
of a specific psychological profile to those who choose this
sector and predisposing them to greater vulnerability
emotional, the fact that these students are much more
exposed as others to physical and badual violence
could, in part, explain these phenomena. About the
significant consumption of anxiolytics and antidepressants,
authors suggest that their best knowledge of the problems
psychics would lead them to self-diagnose more
precise and not to hesitate to consult to be taken in
charge.
Benoit Thelliez
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