Decisions, and mental hygiene.

I decided to close the blog.

I had gone to the gym to do my usual Judo training, and when I arrived my friends asked me if there is a bank account to make a donation to Italy, as a person or as a club.

They see pictures of soldiers on the streets, read in the newspapers that beds and equipment are missing and think you need help.

At that moment all the obscenities came to mind, all the hatred and all the gufate against an entire country, only because he decided (unlike you) to use doctors instead of soldiers in managing a pandemic, and I realized I have nothing more to say.

The feeling that I feel today requires a cleaning of the contacts, a severe and decisive detachment, and said as it must be said, a big fuck.

I have a blog in German, and I'll focus on that. Maybe the mission of the German blog will have to become just that. The German press is (I deliberately believe) ignoring this hatred and this malevolence.

But I think they are wrong. And I believe that a blog, now quite popular, should explain to them how the country is asked for solidarity (usually money), the country that is the largest net contributor to the EU.

I think it's a good mission, because the truth has to be said, whether German newspapers like it or not. The Internet exists for this: to tell the truth.

I could keep both of them open, but a question of mental hygiene comes into play.

It is very interesting how all the media are focusing on people's physical health (which is useless, because you just need to apply the SIR model to know what's going to happen)

But little is said about mental health.

After all, little is said about how to protect one's mental health, and it is no coincidence that in Italy there are three million chronic depressed people, with a figure of not yet chronic chronic depressed people calculated around ten million.

The truth is that mental illnesses are not contagious in the viral sense, but are toxic. Toxic means that exposing one's mind to their words, to their works of art, to their music, can cause intoxication.

Intoxications that can replicate the disease (as happens to depression that tends to replicate) or can cause other diseases (as happens to psychopaths that induce depression) or narcissists (which induce depression or psychopathy).

The important thing, therefore, is to do your own mental prophylaxis. In particular, it is necessary to recognize well who you are dealing with, and take action immediately.

Diagnosing mental illness in others is undoubtedly a difficult thing. On the contrary, measuring the effects that people have on ourselves is much simpler. So, I could make a little vademecum. First we define contact: any relationship that involves the transport of emotions, or emotional involvement. So also Social Networks, music, books, telephone calls, letters, newspapers, blogs, news programs.

In these cases, prophylaxis comes into play. Don't hesitate to cut bridges with that person. It is as if she were sick with the plague: do not approach, do not talk to us, avoid dialogue, treat them as plague and isolate them.

Exactly how it is done with a quarantine. Because coronavirus will pass, mental illnesses normally leave after-effects for a lifetime. And they never completely go away.

Avoid getting intoxicated, at any cost.

Mental hygiene is just as important as health care.

In times of hysteria, those who try to reason (even with the risk of making mistakes) are seen as an enemy.

When the population is addicted to adrenaline, if you panic they will behave like a drug addict.

I leave you to your adrenaline pear .

Have fun.