The more anxious and depressed, disheartened, forced to see the jump floors from the time organized. The coronavirus is not only a health emergency but also an epidemic of insecurity that is amplified with the uncontrolled spread of news is not true. To curb it, the Italian Society of Psychiatry (Sip) has developed the rules ‘anti-panic’, and launches an appeal to “not to upset the habits of daily life”.
The fear of an epidemic is as old as man, explains Enrico Zanalda, president of the Sip, “and in this case is amplified by diffusion, a very fast news partial, or even false, which can cause a collapse of confidence in the relations between people and Institutions”. To weigh, also, explains the expert, is the fact that “the virus is having a severe impact on everyday life, changing our lives and causing the cancellation or postponement of hundreds of thousands of minor events, but important in people’s lives, from birthdays to baptisms”.
