Psychologists in the square today, in Montecitorio, to demonstrate for the right to mental well-being. “After nine months of emergency for psychological health, nothing has been done – underline David Lazzari, the president of the Cnop, National Council of the Order of Psychologists, and the vice president Laura Parolin -. Many words but zero facts. We made many proposals, concrete and feasible, but no one listened to us. Ours is an extreme gesture, of denunciation, underlined by wearing a gag that wants to show how today the psychological health needs of the population have no say in the matter. This is why the slogan of the event is “Giving a voice to psychological health” ».
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«Ours – Lazzari specifies – is not a gesture” against “, but a gesture” for “: to urge the government, parliament and regions to listen to the needs of the population. We ask to learn from what happened ». «Psychologists – he continues – feel powerless, because they are not put in a position to help a population that is passing from discomfort to conditions of psychological pain, anguish and depression. We cannot do prevention, we cannot activate programs for the development of adaptation resources and resilience, we cannot proceed with targeted support interventions, not even towards health workers, the survivors of intensive care, the tens of thousands of sick people at home, who often have more psychological problems than Covid symptoms, children or teenagers with problems, fragile people. Because all this requires public policies and initiatives, of the state and the regions ». “Italy – he concludes – is unable to prevent or intervene promptly to prevent the problems from worsening. The transition from discomfort to psychological pain is neither inevitable nor unmanageable: it can and must be prevented ».
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November 18, 2020 | 17:09
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