Are you worried about deconfinement? You may be suffering from cabin syndrome

While the country is gradually deconfining, some French people plan to stay at home, out of habit, comfort or concern. A term has been used to qualify this behavior: the cabin syndrome.

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At a time of deconfinement, while businesses are reopening, terraces fill up and cinemas are full, some French people are not happy with this beginning of a return to normal.

Even vaccinated, even by continuing to apply barrier gestures, they see the new stage of deconfinement as an agonizing ordeal and plan to stay at home.

“These are not people who no longer want to go out. These are people who can no longer go out. It’s quite different ”, explains psychoanalyst Sophie Braun for france info.

And for good reason, since the beginning of the health crisis, the adaptability of the population has been severely tested. Doctor Christophe Debien, psychiatrist at Lille University Hospital, adds for Europe 1 that being wary of the outside is a normal reaction.

> Soothing confinements

«Our adaptation capacities have been put to the test for more than a year, between confinement, deconfinement, semi-deconfinement and reconfinement. We had to adapt to our daily, professional and family life. So having a reluctance to adapt to a huge change – since there, all of a sudden, we find an almost classic life – that’s normal », Reassures the doctor.

The test of successive confinements was also for some, an opportunity to consolidate in a secure environment.

« They no longer felt assaulted by others, were calmed down and no longer felt the guilt of being self-sufficient. Because for once they lived like the others », Sophie Braun analyzes again for 20 minutes.

> How to help a loved one concerned?

Until the end of June, France will go through new stages of deconfinement that could upset the most anxious. So how do you best support a worried loved one?

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It is necessary to go there gradually, to respect the limits of each one and to accompany those who have difficulty »Advises Christophe Debien for Europe 1.

Same story with Sophie Braun, who recommends “gentleness” and “tenderness” towards people with “cabin syndrome”.

It will also take patience. “Leaving home, seeing people, going to work or to a bar, these are habits that must be rebuilt. That takes time “, analyzes psychology professor Inez Germeys on Radio 1.

Finally, it is important to ensure that this worry is not the first signs of a depressive state or a social phobia.

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