A widespread problem that is rarely talked about, if at all. For fear of being judged and marginalized. They are mental disorders, a wide range of problems that affect almost 1 in 3 Italians: anxiety, depression, panic, to name the most common, which in these months of emergency have spread even more. With the health emergency, in fact, depressive disorders have quintupled and in general the incidence of mental problems has gone from 6 to 32% in the population. On the occasion of the world day of mental health, which is celebrated every year on 10 October, Salute, in collaboration with Lundbeck, organizes a digital event to talk about this topic together with some of the leading experts in the sector: to highlight the effects that the lockdown and the pandemic had on the psyche of Italians, to clarify the importance of early diagnosis and treatment, to reiterate the need to fight the stigma that still surrounds patients.
Mental health, we only spend 80 euros per year per adult
06 October 2020-
Appointment Saturday 10 October at 11.30 in streaming on the homepage, with Daniela Minerva, director of Salute.eu, who will talk about it with Massimo Di Giannantonio, president of the Italian Society of Psychiatry, Andrea Fiorillo, president of the Italian Society of Social Psychiatry, Francesca Merzagora, President of the Onda Foundation and Tiziana Mele, CEO of Lundbeck Italia. An opportunity also to talk about the “Together for mental health” campaign, launched on 7 September 2020, which Lundbeck Italia promotes throughout the country, which involves more than 30 patient associations and scientific societies and which can count on a testimonial of exception, the singer Noemi. The color chosen to raise awareness on the issue is green: a green wave of energy that will manifest itself especially online – given the times we are living – on the social profiles of the campaign but which will also arrive in some cities with installations, in Milan in via Joe Colombo and Piazza Lina Bo Bardi, in Monza, in via Italia, and in Bari, in Strada Palazzo di Città.
Sacks of rice to give hope to those who fight depression
by CATERINA PASOLINI
07 October 2020-
According to the data just presented to the Ministry of Health, and which refer to 2018, in Italy there are over 830 thousand psychiatric users assisted by Italian specialist services, almost 7 out of 10 patients are over 45 and more than half are women, which also represent the majority of patients over 75. In both sexes there are fewer patients under the age of 25, a fact that however leaves room for the suspicion – underlined by some experts – that mental disorders remain far under diagnosed in young people.
