Mental health alert: 16 million Italians have disorders, with young people at the top

From research on the most common mental disorders in our country to see World Mental Health Day On October 10, it appears that anxiety and depression, driven by the Covid-19 pandemic, have increased by 26 and 28% respectively. Mood swings (60%), insomnia (59%), depressive symptoms (58.9%) and panic attacks (38%) are the most common sensations among those who spend between 31 and 100 euros per month to ‘ purchase of psychoactive psychotropic drugs: in 2023, 19.8% of Italians took drugs such as anxiolytics (85.1%), antidepressants (51.2%), mood stabilizers (40.5%) and antipsychotics (21.4%), especially women over 65 (21.7% compared to 17.8% of men).