Marco Michelini

Squid Game is a South Korean TV series that has been hugely successful worldwide.

The plot is as simple as it is cruel: many people, 456, participate in a series of games for children with the aim of earning a lot of money knowing that there will be only one winner. Those who are eliminated will be killed and you cannot withdraw from the game.

Breaking up and keep loving each other

Forced, unfortunately, by the quarantine, I spent the Christmas holidays in house. To try to survive boredom, thanks to the suggestion of a friend, I watched the TV series Normal people in one breath. The series starring teenagers fascinate me a lot, maybe because I’m a teacher or maybe because adolescence is a time of my life that I carry in my heart, as a precious gift to keep.

It’s been a while since I want to write something about Faiah El Degwy, 25 year old (more or less) Italian-Egyptian, to date 61,8 thousand followers on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/faiah.j/,  118,233 on facebook https://www.facebook.com/FaiahElDegwy, rapper, specialized doctor to be, an explosion of sympathy and exuberance.

During and after the lockdown, we “fortunately” began to talk about school, about the problems of teaching, the tools and methods of teaching, the reality that students live and the importance of the school for them. Especially with the use of distance teaching, the theme of school dropouts has emerged strongly, in fact an old problem that perhaps today we can deal with a few more ideas.

I read with great interest the article published on this blog last week by four students. I don’t want to focus on the central topic of the article, which in my opinion deserves more in-depth analysis and maybe even a discussion with them, but I have grasped its intelligence.

In that article students ask themselves many questions without wanting to find an immediate answer.

The 2020-2021 period had to win the struggle with the mental-health taboo, because the diffusion of the Covid-19 had expanded the necessity of approaching this argument in our time with more bravery. We want to reflect on this.

In our opinion mental health is still a secondary theme compared to physical wellbeing. It is thought that in 10 years the mental weakness will pass the physical disease because mental health is one of most disregarded areas of public health. “ Mens sana in corpore sano” , a Latin proverb; perhaps Latin believed in a correspondence between these two and in this pandemic period this one could not be obvious.

ast week I lined up for over three hours to do the third so called additional or booster of Covid-19 vaccine. There were a lot of people. No wonder, after all, the official data of the vaccines against Covid 19 of the Ministry of Health reports that a few days after the clearance of the dose booster, about 46 % of the population potentially object of booster has already done it.

The landscape of adoptions is vast, articulate, impossible to catalogue or label.

Many different stories, do not try to combine them in a unique speech. Very often these are meetings between different cultures, obviously between different generations and talking about it as if it were something defined is simply absurd.

Notes from a dependency service

Although my experience within the Teen Addiction Service is just at its beginning, there are already many considerations that I constantly find myself sharing with colleagues, and whether they are psychologists, psychiatrics, or specialists in toxicology, one of the recurring topics is surely the analysis of the question: are we sure this is the right place for this boy/girl?