WITH THE recovery, Italians are ‘divided’ between the positive drive to build and design and the negative feeling of regret for what the pandemic has taken away from us and for ‘pre Covid‘that it is feared that it will not return. A condition, the latter, which if preponderant, can create emotional distress, which must be addressed by asking for help and ‘strengthening relationships’ within one’s family and social environment or, if necessary, by resorting to psychological support. This was supported by Massimo Di Giannantonio, elected president of the Italian Society of Psychiatry (Sip) and full professor of psychiatry at the University of Chieti-breaking latest news.
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“The recovery – clarifies the psychiatrist – brings with it two conditions that are completely conflicting. The positive one is the idea, the project, the hope of being able to start over in an intense and creative way. And therefore an important, innovative project that has to do with the rebirth of motivation but also with the research and construction of radically new milestones “. The negative dimension, on the other hand, “is that of memory, regret, remorse.
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It is the negative thought that we will never be able to go back to the previous era, that the opportunities have passed, that the grief has hurt and bent us. The shortcomings, the interruptions, the frustrations carry with them a load of pain and suffering, of difficulty and inhibition that make a redesign, a restart, difficult if not impossible “.
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See if you consider the bottle half full or half empty. If the bottle is half full we start off on the right foot and have the energy to start over. If, on the other hand, we see the half-empty bottle and if sadness, asthenia, lack of desire and hope prevail, and if this makes us very different from how we were before the crisis, we need to make a gesture of humility, raise our hand and ask for help”.
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If we remain “in the sphere of disappointment, mourning, sadness as physiological reactions to stress – he remarks – we must find resources in our social, family and working environment by regenerating our relationships, increasing social relationships, rediscovering the taste for being together. A do-it-yourself answer, in short “. But if that’s not enough, “professional support” is needed.
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