Five women who have come out telling this unknown scourge that is alcoholism in the feminine, the family who denies them, the loss of their momentum of life, their femininity, their dignity …
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Hundreds of thousands of women are concerned in France, but so far they had little face. By accepting to testify to the Camera of Marie-Christine Gambart, Ariane, Isabelle, Michèle, Stacy and Sylvie contribute to lifting the taboo around the feminine alcoholism. Different ages and backgrounds, these women, who could be our mothers, our sisters, our friends, our colleagues, tell, without beam and with a lot of courage, their addiction to alcohol. Precious stories to better understand what is a real illness, and its singularities in female gender.
In the collective imagination, as one of them at the beginning of the documentary, “a man who drinks, it’s a good living. A woman who drinks, it’s a depraved. It’s A woman not respectable and above all it’s a bad mother “. Ariane and the others started drinking in very diverse circumstances: festive context in the evening, family meal, hold the shock in the face of a violent spouse … and then the dependence that settles, often insidiously, the excessive place taken gradually by The drink in their lives, until obsession. “We think alcohol, we live alcohol”, summarizes one of them.
All entrust how far they have lied to their family and professional surroundings (and sometimes to themselves), to give change and try to hide their dependence. Until, sometimes, hiding bottles in their baby’s landau!
Dramatic consequences
They do not occupy anything either of the consequences, sometimes dramatic, of their excesses of the “poison”: the family who denies them, the loss of their momentum of life, their femininity, their dignity. In his cabinet, the psychiatrist and addictologist Fatma Bouvet de la Maisonneuve, very committed on this subject, explains to his patients as much as the spectators the problems of alcohol in the feminine, who are happy to affect rather perfectionist women, in the avoidance of Conflicts. It also insists on the history of sexual assault and rape, which multiply by 36 the risk of falling into alcohol “.
Long path of pitfalls that is withdrawing, Ariane, Isabelle, Michèle, Stacy and Sylvie tell all the steps, which are all the glow of hopes for women today struggling with this plague. It is by giving the floor to the women – also mention the recent Documentary series” Women who drink “, on France Culture – that things will finally be able to change in this area.
On the “infrared” plateau, Marie Drucker will receive Nathalie Latour, General Delegate of Federation Addiction, and Elsa Taschini, doctor in psychology, addictologist.