Lucrezia Ciotti Mental health is back at the center of public debate. Palermo is preparing to welcome the World Mental Health Day, promoted by the WHO and dedicated this year to the theme of "community." A day of meetings, reflections, and performances to promote a new culture of care and combat stigma, loneliness, and misinformation.
Palermo, the capital of mental health: World Community Day returns.
Palermo is preparing to once again become a hub for mental health in Italy. Tomorrow, Friday October 10 the city will host, for the second time, the World Mental Health Day, announced by the WHO, which this year has chosen the word as its theme "community".
The initiative, promoted by the Tommaso Dragotto Foundation in collaboration with Big Mama Production, aims to raise awareness of the value of mental health as a right and as an expression of civilization.
According to data released by the WHO, more than one in eight people worldwide lives with a mental disorder, for a total of nearly one billion individuals. In Europe, 17% of adults suffer from mental health problems. and in Italy there are approximately 18 million citizens with significant psychiatric disorders.
World Mental Health Day: A day of discussion and debate
The event will start at 9.30 at the Botanical Garden, where the science journalist Laura Berti will interview the professor Andrew Fiorillo, Chairman of the European Psychiatric AssociationThe debate will address issues such as loneliness, video game and substance addiction, depression, and suicide risk.
"Mental disorders are constantly increasing, especially among the most young, so much so that it represents a new clinical and social epidemic but thanks to new knowledge, Today it is possible to prevent the onset of mental disorders. Depressive disorders remain constantly increasing, a real alarm for young people and the elderly, often linked by a common denominator called loneliness". declared Prof. Fiorillo.
The day will continue at 11.30am at Lux Cinema Theater with the show “Broken Dolls” by Alessia Tanzi, dedicated to the theme of gender violence, introduced by the criminologist Flaminia Bolzan.
In the afternoon, at 5pm, there will be music with a concert by the pianist Giles Bae at the “A. Scarlatti” Conservatory, preceded by a reading by the actor Corrado Tedeschi dedicated to Robert Schumann and his fight against schizophrenia.
In the evening, at 6.30 pm, the Royal Theatre of Santa Cecilia will host the company Academy of Madness with "Basaglia's...180°”, and then conclude at 21.00pm at Theater at the Massimo Lina Sastri and his performance “Voice and night”, a journey through music, poetry and therapy.