An emergency with multiple implications, which is confirmed as one of the leading causes of death, loss of working hours, serious deterioration in the quality of life of many young people, adults and entire families. On the World Day dedicated to Mental Health, awareness-raising initiatives on a theme – mental well-being – are multiplying, which has also been put to the test by Covid, which has proved to be a formidable catalyst for pathologies related to mental disorders. Symptoms of anxiety and depression that have joined with a greater use of substances, up to an exponential increase in acts of self-harm, especially among the youngest. A data from Bergamo is sobering: only between November and December of 2020 there was a significant increase in children who attempted suicide, 30% more than the standard pre-pandemic data.
And from the Bergamo area a cry of alarm is raised, with many structures operating in the field of psychiatry almost on their knees: they are demanding more funds, personnel, training, job placements and different attention given that Covid has caused the interruption of a wide range of rehabilitation paths, exacerbating the suffering of patients and those providing care. The numbers of private and accredited residential and semi-residential psychiatric structures in the Bergamo area offer a varied picture: 15 residential communities, with different degrees of intensity of care, for a total of 276 places, 7 day centers offering 100 places, and some apartments in housing where the most autonomous people live.
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