There mental health Italian children and adolescents are at risk for: 20 and 25% of which shows signs, respectively, anxiety disorder and from depression, While I neuropsychiatric disorders I am in constant increase. Analysis-Based Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry Resources SinpiaThe Italian Society for Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry continues to shrink, and even in urgent situations they cannot find shelter.
“Despite the real own health emergency developmental neuropsychiatric disorders are often dramatic and tragically ignored by our national health care system. A reality that much of public opinion and the political class continues to ignore. In fact, beds are scarce and unevenly distributed in a country with 5 districts without beds. We almost always rely on pediatric departments, in one support and acceptance logic more than a care project and, unfortunately, often also in adult psychiatry projects, which are not at all suitable for receiving and caring for minors and their parents. We need not only resources for the emergency, which is currently the dramatic tip of the iceberg, but above all, the strengthening of the network of local services that, including families, schools, social and health systems, improve the interception of objects in danger or the first symptoms so that all children and adolescents with neuropsychiatric disorders of various kinds and their families finally see recognition the right to appropriate and timely treatment”, explains Elisa Maria FazziThe president Sinpia, Director of the Department of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry at ASST Spedali Civili and Professor at the University of Brescia.
Adolescents are not alien to situations of obvious discomfort: almost 40% of young people know peers who engage in self-harm, more common among girls, an act that is considered an extreme way to cope with situations of excitement, sadness and tension. The Sinpia survey allowed us to photograph how young people perceive psychological and psychological troubles: most of them do not scale them according to stigmatic clichés (weak people who are unable to overcome them on their own suffer from them), on the contrary 58% consider it important to seek help from a specialist. Among the main causes of psychological malaise in young people are pandemic (88%), family disputes (87%) and school (84%).
During self-isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, symptoms depression and anxiety doubled compared to pre-pandemic estimates: 1 in 4 young people (25.2%) and 1 in 5 (20.5%), globally, experiences symptoms of depression and anxiety, respectively. In Italy during the pandemic, 16.1% of the mentally ill attempted suicide, while suicidal thoughts and self-mutilation served as a reason for hospitalization in 31.5% of patients, with a high incidence, especially among girls. (Source Sinpia)
“Every day in our country, a girl or a boy, adolescence, but also pre-adolescence, suicide attempts. Growth, which over the past two years is 75%. The youngest who embarked on the path of social death, the so-called hikikomori, isolated in your roomfleeing from interaction with the world, overwhelmed by the fear of condemnation, there are 100 thousand of them, ”he explains. Antonio D’Avino, President of the Italian Federation of Pediatricians on the occasion of the Fimp National Congress held last October in Riva del Garda. These are impressive numbers that need to be questioned precisely in order to have updated tools that can deal with the new forms of discomfort and suffering that children suffer and that manifest themselves around the age of 15.
“There pandemic it really was one bomb atomic from a social point of view for the youngest. The total lockdowns taken in the initial period, the subsequent restrictive measures, the constant distancing measures to prevent infection contributed to the creation of very intense discomfort, a silent scream, which we realized in our studies, and then with the data collected in the emergency department. During the 2018-2019 biennium, the Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital in Rome recorded 464 hospitalizations for suicidal thoughts, suicide attempts and self-harm. In 2020-2021, the number increased to 752, an increase of more than 60%,” explains Silvia Zecca, FIMP National Co-arbitrator for the Abuse and Abuse of Minors group.
Number of neuropsychiatric consultations requested for depression or anxiety increased 11 times. “Specifically, emergency consultations for suicidal thoughts, suicide attempts, and self-harm increased almost 40-fold, in young people aged 9 to 17 years. We want to highlight the gap that concerns the age of these cases: it is becoming wider and more and more associated with the activities of the family pediatrician, the protagonist of the necessary education and information for parents and their children,” concludes national co-arbitrator Anna Latin Fimp. the same group.
Source: Elle