The director of the mental health department: “Anxiety and depression from Covid, fathers of families and young people the most affected”

UDINE. On the one hand, fathers frightened by a future in which there is a risk of not being able to financially support the family. On the other hand, the very young, children and teenagers, the most fragile because they are stuck in a health emergency that they are unable to contextualize and fear that it will last forever. It is on these two segments of the population that the pandemic, which has distorted normality for over a year and a half, has weighed the most in terms of mental health.

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