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That it was the youngest – namely Antonella Fiordelisi, Luca Salatino and George Ciupilan – who supported Marco Bellavia in the psychological difficulties experienced at Big Brother Vip, is (perhaps) indicative. Or rather, we want to hope that it is. We want to hope that the great talk that has been made about “mental health” among the youngest on the platforms, from Instagram and TikTok, has paid off, or that it has served to break down the stigma around mental disorders , at least among those who are in their twenties. Because, although you can legitimately ask yourself who the heck are Antonella, Luca and George (by virtue of their haphazard profession of, respectively, “ex fencer”, “ex tronista of Men and Women” and “ex competitor of” Il Collegio “) it goes they recognized that they were the only ones to insist on a dialogue approach towards the 57-year-old competitor, who retired from the game due to “anxiety problems.” Problems such as to find him lying on the ground, on the loft floor, in indifference general (and deeply cruel) of the roommates, that is, problems that turn out to be more serious than expected, more serious than anticipated by the production of the Canale 5 reality show.
That the taboos concerning mental health have enjoyed good health for too long, says science: the propensity of society has, up to now, been to nurture an attitude of rejection towards psychological malaise. And it is precisely for this reason that, among the many battles for rights that are underway in this era – which lives, in the media and beyond, under the banner of inclusiveness – there is also the one that aims to “normalize” the story of mental suffering, stripping it of both discrimination and rhetoric. In this sense, the fact that the “Bellavia case” has led to the largest social discussion ever on the subject (as well more than the shot of Giorgia Meloni did on the “deviations”, says Laura Fontana, an expert in social media) explains nothing but the anachronism of a certain audience with respect to an increasingly inclusive virtual debate. Anachronism of TV compared to those social media in which mental health has been a “trend” for some time.
“Mental health” on social media: benefits (and risks) of the trend that wants to break down taboos
Before Bellavia: bullying on Grignani, in Sanremo
Anachronism that, to make a leap backwards, we can trace in the bullying to which Gianluca Grignani was subjected in February in Sanremo: guest of the Festival, the singer was the victim of a shitstorm that had as its objective the teasing of his delicate physical and mental form . It was a scandal, it was a big cause for public indignation. But so much anachronism finds his nemesis, or his revenge, in the young “creators” of TikTok – as the platform’s influencers are called, for those who don’t know – who make mental health a real mission.
Bullying on Gianluca Grignani. And the fight against “body shaming” only when you want
On TikTok there are those who tell their day in psychiatry
There is – on the Chinese platform – even those who tell firsthand about their day in the psychiatric ward. Like Anna, for example. Which explains why in the clinic he walks without laces (removed as a precaution by the healthcare staff), why there are no handles on the windows (also removed by the staff), as well as the reasons why it is wrong to stigmatize borderline personality disorder , from which it is affected. “Do your best,” followers tell her. “I try every day,” she replies. Or, among the many creators, let’s think of Martina Strazzer, a young 22-year-old entrepreneur, owner of a jewelry brand founded by herself, within which she has inserted a line completely dedicated to mental health: there are earrings in the shape of the sun and of rain, in the form of clear weather and storm, in short. A collection that made a restock necessary, to tell once again how much the theme is felt.
But Martina and Anna are certainly not the only ones. If I think back to the times when I was a teenager, that is the times when it happened to stumble upon pro-ana blogs (for the uninitiated: they were openly pro-anorexia blogs in which we recommended, among girls, crazy dietary regimes to lose chili), it seems to me a miracle that today there is Carlotta Fiasella, a 22-year-old Genoese creator, who sensitizes over two million people on the topic of eating disorders. It seems to me that I am finally living in a new world, today that, in “Skam”, the psychologist’s room is very crowded with the protagonists of the series, and it is not just the room full of cobwebs that it was at the time when there was on the school desks. it was me. It is a new world, one in which Giada Salvi tells 24 thousand people how she got out of OCD, but above all how one can live with OCD. They are faces and they are symbols, they are the new imaginary. These are the new models on which the collective consciousness of the youngest is being formed.
From OCD to rebirth: “The first symptoms at 10, I had to do everything 3 times”
@martinastrazzer_ RESTOCK Mental Health soon! The site is closed, find the code in the stories❤️
♬ original sound – Martina Strazzer
@carlottafiasella 15.03. You are not alone. IG: CARLOTTAFIASELLA (I made a post in which I explain my story, if you like, check it out) 💜
♬ White Clouds – Yuval Salomon
Young people devastated by the pandemic. And their new approach to the mind
And – beyond the story of the actual mental disorders mentioned above – the children are trying to have a new mental approach to everyday life that is less “toxic” than those who preceded them. It is interesting to begin to see concepts such as “toxic positivity” circulate, a real complaint against the prevailing ban on giving oneself the right time to suffer (and a concept that is opposed to the praise of resilience that the millennials did). Generation z’s critique of an engulfing professional world is constructive, which until now has asked to sacrifice one’s psychophysical well-being in the face of increasingly invasive working hours and requests (as opposed to maniacal careerism, or the maniacal cult of the self and of one’s career, of millennials).
@pasha mеntal health day slayed 😩 trаuma is no 🧢 #comedy #genz ♬ Trauma Slayed – Pasha
After all, it is the very young who have paid the highest toll, in terms of mental health, of the pandemic. The data from Cesvi, a humanitarian organization, which denounces the devastating boom in accesses to the emergency rooms, by the very young, adolescents and children, for suicide attempts, depression and eating disorders tell us this. It is they who – with all the downsides that the Net entails – will be able to seek strength in what in the jargon is called “sharing is caring”, or “sharing is caring”.
The effects of the pandemic on children and adolescents are devastating
In short, without wanting to fall into the traditional excess of optimism towards an alleged “better youth” (after all, those of generation z, are still those who fight for the green and then buy from “fast fashion” brands, or brands that they produce clothes at bargain prices but in the short term and with a huge environmental impact, ed), I want to believe that, if Marco Bellavia had found himself in a less agé house, he would have felt more understood, more protected. This, net of the dangers that “mental health as a trend” entails, dangers that we have already analyzed here and that, to summarize briefly, have to do with the classic danger of virtual self-diagnosis; with the trivialization of concepts that many professionals have the presumption of wanting to explain through ridiculous thirty-second dances; with the so-called “aestheticized suffering” and therefore with the danger of emulation; and, finally, with the glossy dress that is dangerously acquiring the use of psychotropic drugs, drugs that have important side effects, never to be underestimated. But, keeping in mind the contraindications (because everything has a downside), the benefits of the battle of the youngest have to do with the breaking down of secular taboos that still, apparently, are hard to die. . Call Giovanni Ciacci to confirm it.
“Mental health” on social media: benefits (and risks) of the trend that wants to break down taboos
