“The pediatrician and psychoanalyst Donald winnicott said: “Adolescence is a disease that always passes”! “, Has fun
Marie-Rose Moro. This child psychiatrist publishes, with Sophie Bordet-Petillon, Puberty and me*.
A short guide, clear and full of tips, illustrated by Océane Meklemberg, which answers the questions that may be asked by children who sometimes suddenly become adults. Is puberty adolescence? Why am I feeling bad about myself? Acne, screens, sexual orientation, consent, the book answers all kinds of questions and is aimed at teenagers who are sometimes lost as well as their parents who are also in difficulty.
“You can see it, you can feel it, you can hear it! “
“The body and the mind change a lot at the time of puberty because we have a lot of hormones, which will prepare to have a sexuality and a fertility, synthesizes Marie-Rose Moro, director of the Solenn’s house, which welcomes adolescents in difficulty at Cochin Hospital (AP-HP). You can see it, you can feel it, you can hear it! “Not easy to navigate for parents. Because if many young people go through this period with a few clashes but without major dramas, some are experiencing real black thoughts. How to differentiate the banal teenage crisis, where his child turns into an independent and insolent young person, from a real psychological disorder?
“The ups and downs are commonplace, they exist in 10% of children at the time of puberty,” continues the child psychiatrist. A number will have thoughts of suicide. You have to worry when the child suffers, suddenly changes his behavior. That he no longer speaks, no longer wants to see his friends, that the things that interested him no longer interest him. Sometimes he can’t seem to express his concern. He may think he’s the only one feeling them. We have to tell him that we can see that he is not doing well. If we can’t get him to talk, we’ll see the general practitioner, a psychologist… ”
* Puberty and me, The essential to live it serenely, Hygée Editions, September 23, 2021, € 13.90.