TVA will broadcast the documentary tomorrow Gaétan Girouard: shock wave, about the famous journalist who took his own life on January 14, 1999.
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Produced by Jean-Philippe Dion and directed by Maude Sabbagh, this documentary (which avoids any sensationalism and pays a moving homage to this “giant with feet of clay”) asks a damn good question…
To what extent should we respect the professional secrecy that binds psychologists to their patients?
What is more important: respecting this bond at all costs… or doing everything possible to save the patient?
PRIVACY: HOW FAR?
In public, Girouard looked cast in concrete.
From the forehead all around the head, recklessness not to be missed, no closed door could resist him. Like Yves Poirier, who chases the accused with the obstinacy of a remote-controlled missile launched from a North Korean submarine, co-host of JE he could brandish a microphone a millimeter from a boss’s face without blinking or swallowing.
But in life Girouard was fragile.
He suffered from severe depression, the extent of which no one knew.
Gaétan Girouard had consulted a doctor a few days before taking action.
If this doctor could have told Girouard’s wife that her husband was depressed, could he have helped him? If Gaétan Girouard had turned to a psychologist and talked to his partner, would anything have changed?
This is the question that Jean-Philippe Dion asks himself in his documentary.
An essential question that all those close to people who have taken their lives due to depression have asked themselves.
It’s all right, the bond of confidentiality that binds doctors to their patients…
But when the person is at his worst, shouldn’t this pact of secrecy be broken for the patient’s sake?
To what extent does this pact contribute to isolating the patient even more, to locking him up even more in his mental prison, instead of helping him to free himself?
“The government will have to react, because there are clearly problems with professional secrecy related to mental health,” Jean-Philippe Dion said. It will be my workhorse for the next few years.”
BREAK THE SILENCE
Imagine your minor daughter consults a psychologist because she has dark thoughts. And you are completely ignoring this fact.
Shouldn’t you know that your daughter is thinking of taking her own life?
At the same time, if people at the end of their strength have the excellent reflex to turn to counseling, it is precisely because they know that their conversations will remain confidential. And that we will not warn their loved ones (who, in some cases, are perhaps more part of the problem than the solution)…
In short, it’s not simple.
But we have to talk about it. This is what this fantastic documentary does, which you must see at all costs, tomorrow, at 9pm.
PS: if you have dark thoughts, don’t hesitate and call 1 866 APPELLE.
2024-01-10 05:00:00
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