Thursday October 10th, the world celebrated the day of mental health, which has organized events, spots and round tables on the delicate theme of mental health.
Obviously, on TV programs and news, opinion leaders and professionals have found space to expose the problems they are facing, especially when they are in front of younger children.
F.O.M.O. (anxiety to be cut off from the peer context) Ecoansia (“excessive” concern for the planet’s climate future) and a wide range of problems regarding the image and the relationship with the body seem to be the issues to which we most often have to give answers.
If it is now a fact that more and more “young adults” are addressing colleagues, however, I think there is less clarity on what can be understood by mental health and especially what the “indicators” Able to draw attention to potentially hazardous situations, meaning that the risk of confusing normality with health..
Yet it would be enough to consult the Dictionary of Synonyms and Opposites, or more easily ask the automatic prompter “Word”..
At least on the first the adjectives Healthy and Normal are not at all synonyms nor even contrary, rather to the opposite voice we find respectively Sick and Strange
Reflecting on the concept of normality, which seems easier, the first reflection that comes to mind can be related to time and/ or place where you observe that data
“phenomenon” which then to speak quickly is only a certain behavior.
Referring to the norm means in fact a “Single moral, legal or technical precept within the context of custom or generality” which I do not know but seems a bit vague to me.
In some countries of Africa for example it is culturally accepted to bring children to shamans if the family members think they are possessed, while here I hope well would take the family members to the psychiatrist, and that’s why studies on ethnopsychiatry were born!
But if, and here the situation gets complicated, a twenty-year-old girl buries two babies born a year apart and then leaves for holidays as if nothing had happened, the fact that she did well in mathematics or attended the scouts is not telling us much, if not two things:
The first is that to be destroyed or rather “made disappear” by the girl was precisely the birth of the two children, the second that it would be time to stop believing that it is only from behavior that you can think of making diagnosis or prevention, as Dr Michelini writes very clearly in his most recent article “NO MOTIVE/2”
And I talk about prevention because it is for weeks that there is a big noise around the phenomenon of the Sex Roulette, the challenge in vogue on Tik Tok in which groups of teenagers gather to have sex with each other without any kind of precaution, then to see which of the girls gets pregnant (by whom?) first, but no one of the above professionals has gone beyond the usual litany of lack of adequate sexual and affective education in schools, which is a bit like saying by, reintroduce compulsory civic education, so kids don’t go to burn clochard…
I do not want to read the case of the first girl as a possible consequence of Sex Roulette, but it would certainly not be only the timeline to be able to link the events between them, at least not as much as the term fatuità.
What will be if I get pregnant, at most after I throw it away.
And instead I heard about criminal mind and premeditation, social discomfort and boredom, as if to give knives for nothing (or rather apologizing) or throw stones from a flyover, are simply facts intended to fill the halls of programs that ride sensationalism and indignation, especially if you do not have the courage to think differently, diametrically opposed to the banal generalism of “it can happen to anyone”.
Perhaps mental illness is divided into two large groups of subjects, those who suffer from it, complain and maybe in the most unlikely ways seek help and those who instead make suffering but seem to be fine are smiling kindly and “always greet”.
They are those who do not see.. but hear!
But if you stop to think (ah, yeah, and who has more time for this) it is possible to reverse the concept: who starts thinking, who tries to change point of view, is far from standing still.
Marco Randisi
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