«If only everyone understood that mental health is as important as physical health. Having a fever prevents you from doing things. Even depression or panic attacks."

Today is World Mental Health Day , and there are many initiatives underway to raise public awareness and ensure mental health has the same priority as physical health.

At the day mental health center in Marina Piccola, managed by the Cagliari Local Health Authority, operators, doctors and patients showed off their daily lives, the result of the laboratories they work on every day . And so, the yard from a landfill was transformed into a garden with aromatic herbs and seasonal flowers. There is a reading corner under a large tree. There are photos taken by patients that describe their state of mind. Pottery and carpentry work. And the music too. And then there are them, the patients of the center with their own dreams and their own fragilities who tell their stories together with the operators and professionals who take them by the hand every day.

The center which overlooks the crystalline sea of Poetto is open from Monday to Friday and hosts patients aged 18 to 55.

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