At the heart of the second wave, the virus slows down in Bergamo. This is confirmed by tables, curves, and statistics: all analyzes that confirm how much the advance of Sars-CoV-2 has definitely slowed down here. But there is an entire sector where the epidemic continues to gallop, even in the Bergamo area. And it is the sector of psychiatric frailty. Already during the first wave there was a marked increase in mental health disorders.
“But now, in this phase of resurgence, things are even worse” says Emi Bondi, director of the mental health department of Asst Papa Giovanni XXIII in Bergamo. “Unlike spring, today we lack a factor that had helped citizens a lot: social cohesion. That ingredient that had allowed even the most fragile people to cling to gain strength, to find energy, to have a fierce reaction to the pandemic. Now, however, we are paying the consequences of an extremely prolonged and dilated period of stress: the sacrifices made in the spring were not enough, after the relative tranquility of the summer we fell back into darkness without knowing for sure when the situation will return to normal. Confidence has thus been lost, in favor of a feeling of frustration that weighs on people’s mental health. In particular of the more fragile ones ».
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