New categories, till now never represented, enter the statistics, an example may be the one of Parisian “flick ” (policemen ) where the phenomenon which at first was insignificant, spread out enormously. At a certain point even Police Unions intervened, but the result was that when a French policeman, insted of committing suicide, exterminated his mother, father and two sisters, he couldn’t say why.
The spreading of suicide phenomenon in new categories would make us think of precise factors of risk in the latter, but this hypothesis falls immediately if we think that the same constant and dramatic increase of cases happened in groups like the one of prioners where suicide has always been usual. “From an average of 40, 50 cases a year “-denounces Francesco Leraudo, the President of Penitentiary doctors Association-” 30 cases in only three months occured”.
It’s difficult to think of an aggravation of life conditions in prisons and in any case also warders commit suicide more frequently.
Likewise the category that risks more is the one of the over sixty-five, but the percentage of young people under twenty-one committing suicide has nearly doubled in the last ten years.
There is no hope that official medicine,but not even psychiatry, sociology or religion intend to understand the phenomenon [1]
All that we have is a ” lack of values “by Mons.Riboldi, sincere and committed and a vague “generational reading key “by Valerio Albisetti, a psychologist nostalgic for ’68 [2].
We must admit that there are some serious attempts of comprehension of the phenomenon: Dina Merozzi, a lady doctor of neurology at Rome University – Tor Vergata, notices some seasonal peaks of suicides, by relating them with the depressive phase of maniac-depressive psychosis.
Another psychiatrist, Alessandro Merluzzi, asks that the epidemic feature of suicides, by underlining the close relation with depression, must be acknowledged. In fact even the latter, particularly the one young people suffer from, is constantly increasing.
To acknowledge the increase of suicides and depression seems obvious, and yet there are people, like Diego De Leo, President of the International Academy for the Study of Suicide, who denies the epidemic aspect of the wave of suicides.
For Giorgio Bressa, a psychiatrist,to try to find the cause that urges the various individuals to commit suicide is even ” a great lack of respect to the memoty of young suicides ” (sic!).
Manuela was a teenager who, before committing suicide, at school, with her father’s pistol, writes a letter to exculpate her father from the probable charge of a rash cusody of the arm [3] and sends a series of SMS to her schoolmates announcing the event:”body chains soul to the earth”.
On speaking of this suicide, Silvia Vegetti Finzi [4], an expert, says “Adolescent suicide never has only one cause. And however this girl didn’t intend to die: she was attracted both by life and death, took the pistol but she protected her father: she wanted to challenge herself and show she could win her fears, her phantasms. Maybe death has won just for a little”.
The epidemic evidence is definitely denied by Paolo Crepet, another psychiatrist. When he heard about six suicides, within few hours, equally distributed among two old persons, two young men and two women, he asserts:” The only thing these persons have in common is that they committed suicide on the same day. It is impossible to try to explain these events in only one way or look for a thread joining, someway, the various cases. One collegue of mine would say: the only thing that ten persons, who committed suicide with a pistol shot on their heads, have in common, is the bullet.
It is as if the numbers of epidemiological observers all over the wold and all that, every day, we read on newspapers are only an invention.
Another psychiatrist acknowledges the importance of depression as a nosological entity but only as a symptom. In Luigi Cancrini’s opinion people can recover from depression, it is enough “to give words to the pain” behind the symptom and depression disappears. Certainly antidepressant medicines or electroshock aren’t miraculous, but it’s superficial to think that, on denying the genetic component of depression, a simple psychotherapy can be resolutive
[1] With the due exceptions: we will see later how Vatican can give one of the explanations of the phenomenon, closer to our thesis.
[2] Year in which, in Italy, that historical period, called juvenile protest, began.
[3] Making clear that the pistol was well hidden.
[4] Psychologist.
Translated from “Il Virus Intelligente” by Enrica Narducci
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3*)Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Third part)
4°)Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Fourth part)
5°)Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Fifth part)
6°)Suicides ( Le Mal de Vivre Sixth part)
7°)Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Seventh part)
8°)Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Eighth part)
9°)Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Nineth part)
10°)Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Tenth part)
11°)Suicides (LeMal de Vivre Eleventh part)
12°) Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Twelfth Part)
13°) Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Thirteenth Part)
14°) Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Fourteenth Part)
15°) Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre XV part)
16°)Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Sixteenth part)
17°) Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre XVII part)
18°) Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre XVIII part)
19°) (Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre XIX part)
20°) Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre XX part)
21°)SuiSuicides (Le Mal de Vivre Twentieth-first part)
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