As discussed in a previous article in this blog, raising a child away from their home country it is a challenge that adds to the already extensive list of difficulties and revolutions that arise when becoming mothers or fathers. In this article we will talk about one of the most common dilemmas for a parent abroad: the educational choices.

"We live strange days", sang Battiato in 1996. Of course he could not imagine what we would have had to live almost twenty-five years later. Perhaps not even Kubrick or Hitchcock would have been able to write the subject of a film like what we sometimes seem to live: an invisible enemy, capable of passing sneakily from one person to another, infecting them.

A simple comment to a Facebook post, born of a misunderstanding, offers the opportunity to reflect on the phenomenon of hatred on social networks from a psychological summit.

Certainly many of you are facing the thorny question of how to explain to children what is happening. The health emergency of the coronavirus is a phenomenon that has drastically changed everyone's lifestyle, causing social and psychological repercussions.

THEsoaring suicide, especially since the quarantine period, it has been so exponential that we cannot avoid talking about it. Let's try to look at the subject of suicide from different angles, considering what can be done to prevent it and the extent beyond which one has no power to do so.

The current emergency situation is putting us to the test. Home quarantine pushes people to have an anxious-depressive attitude that often makes them lose sight of themselves.

It strikes me, these days labeled as the first of the long-awaited phase 2, to hear a word frequently spoken by patients being treated for Gambling Disorder"let's hope…". 

On the evening of March 9, the news of the extension of the protected area to the whole national territory as a containment measure for the spread of the Coronavirus COVID-19. 

For a people accustomed to physical contact, to a sociality that makes us famous in the world, having to force themselves to the distance, change the way to greet, work and live everyday life is not to be underestimated. Nonetheless, it is now a ministerial ordinance "having to change your lifestyle".