Échenon. Anxious school refusal: for Alice, "you have to accept putting your life on hold to bounce back better."

With a clear and cheerful voice, Alice thanks us for collecting her testimony. She's like that, Alice, saying thank you and sorry even to those who don't deserve it, the kind of person who does things properly, even when it costs her a lot. "Today, I'm training to work in funeral homes. I know it's atypical (laughs) , but it's an environment with a lot of dialogue and kindness." Everything she missed during her "complicated" school career, she says. From sixth to eighth grade, she was bullied.

Alice's behavior changed, she became silent, ate little, and stopped sleeping. "My family thought it was a teenage crisis. Every day, I woke up with a knot in my stomach, I felt faint, I had hot flashes, and anxiety. Depression set in."

Until one day, at her wit's end, she speaks. " I couldn't go to school one more minute ." Her parents...

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