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This Monday, actress and director Hélène de Fougerolles gave an interview to Télé-Loisirs. The opportunity for her to come back to a painful episode in her life: her deep depression.
Hélène de Fougerolles has not always had a smile on her face. Twenty years ago, the actress faced a deep depression.
“I had become paranoid”
“At one point in my life, I became paranoid, I couldn’t leave my house“, thus confided the actress to Télé-Loisirs, this Monday, December 26.
Suffering from anorexia and paranoia, she was then interned in a psychiatric hospital.
“It was twenty years ago, I don’t know how it is today, I don’t know if anorexics are locked up in glass cages, that was the case at the time.”
A rather traumatic experience for the actress, who denounces the conditions in which she was taken care of.
“I regret not having been accompanied at all by these professionals and psychologists who are supposed to be there to accompany us. I saw no empathy and no benevolence in these people, and I saw a lot of them (…) In these places, I do not understand how one can want to live.”
A lack of support and persistent depressive symptoms (linked in particular to her daughter’s autism, since the actress confides that she was “in denial” of this disorder for a long time) which would have led her to have dark thoughts. At least that’s what the actress assured in March 2021, at the microphone of RTL:
“I looked at the knives, I really wanted (to stick them in his stomach, editor’s note). I went to bed every night praying I wouldn’t wake up, but I couldn’t kill myself, I couldn’t do that to my daughter.”
Humanistic hypnosis ‘literally saved my life’
The actress will eventually get better thanks to the good advice of a friend – suggesting that she take hypnosis.
“Being treated with humanistic hypnosis literally saved my life,” she told Féminin Bio. new job, that would be it“, specified the French director.
Today fulfilled and happy, the actress has found peace thanks to reiki and yoga.
“All of these self-help methods just get you in the right vibe..”