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Today October 10, 2020 the World mental health day around the world, an anniversary highly desired by WHO, World Health Organization, also know as Mental Health Day. The day was established 28 years ago, in 1992, by the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) together with the WHO and the Ministries of Health of individual countries.
The main objective of this event is to sensitize the entire population about mental disorders that afflict children, youth, adults and the elderly of all social classes and from all countries (especially after the Covid-19 epidemic), and try to eradicate social stigma and taboos that afflict patients and their families.
Put mental health at the center of public debate it is the imperative of a society that considers itself civil. “To tear down the wall that still surrounds these pathologies, we must move towards community mental healthà “declared the Secretary of State for Health Sandra Zampa.
Patients with mental disorders are often left alone, in ghettos, and left in the exclusive care of their families. If you are lucky to have one. In our own little way each of us can do his part, to begin with, remove expressions like “I feel depressed” or “that’s bipolar” from common language, used outside of the appropriate context. No one would think of using the lexicon of other pathologies to indicate one’s own or someone else’s emotional state, a clear sign of the taboo and slight mockery that surround the most mentally fragile people.
Mental health figures in Italy
However, psychic suffering affects everyone, our families, our friends, our colleagues. According to the latest report on mental health from the Ministry of Health, psychiatric users assisted by Italian specialized services are 837,027. Of these, 53.8% are women and 68.3% are over 45 years of age. Men suffer more than schizophrenic disorders, of personality, gives substance abuse and mental retardation, while statistically women have more affective, neurotic and depressive disorders (Women with depression are almost twice as many as men).
Mental illness is an illness like many others, and it can often be cured. Point “He cares“Presented by the Ministry of Health on the occasion of the World Mental Health Day October 10, 2020.
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