“The ‘Do You See Me?’ project was born from a short film that we made together with Giffoni Film Festival and presented at the event in 2021. The short starts from the story of Daphne, a teenager who suffers from depression and who for this reason, unable to communicate with her family, attempts suicide Fortunately, the attempt is not successful. The family realizes that there is a problem, that what could probably have been an inconvenience has become a disorder. From there the meeting with a therapist, thanks to which Daphne slowly we resume. The work was a great success among the kids at the Giffoni Film Festival, teenagers who had a great need to talk. Since then we have entered schools to intercept the discomfort among the kids.” Thus at Adnkronos Salute Tiziana Mele, managing director of Lundbeck Italia, on the sidelines of the presentation – today in Rome – of the Mi videte? project, which actively involved over 1,800 students, teachers, families, experts and professional figures in the area. Objective: listen to adolescents and respond to their unexpressed needs.
“We have identified three schools in the North, Center and South – underlines Mele – Three different high schools: a provincial technical institute, a classical high school in a large city like Rome and a scientific high school in the South. Therefore three realities that represent the cross-section of our country. We interviewed the children, their parents and teachers. From their listening, important data emerged that make us think, especially totally different perceptions of discomfort. What the children perceive is not seen by the family and is sometimes ignored also from school. And vice versa”. Hence the need for “a psychologist who acts as a glue within the school, who is not only available for the psychological help desk, but who connects the different actors that revolve around the children”, she concludes.
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