Sassari, "who would like to live and not kill themselves if they could only find help"

Conference on the phenomenon of suicide, yesterday in Sala Angioy in Sassari. Introduced by the president of the municipal council Maurilio Murru, the meeting hosted the reports of psychiatrists, counselors and councilors. "Many people - says Professor Alessandra Nivoli, director of the psychiatric clinic of the University of Sassari - would like to live and not kill themselves if only they could find help".

Mental pathologies are on the rise in the city, reports Nivoli, "which take on very violent forms". "Men in particular are using ever more cruel methods of suicide." Sometimes preceded by a desire to put everything in place before abandoning existence: "Filling out the will or going to say hello to people they haven't seen for some time and perhaps solving old quarrels".

Psychiatric treatment is only a piece of the attempt to prevent suicide and, in this sense, the interventions of the municipal administration are also added to provide support to those experiencing discomfort, as illustrated by the municipal councilor for social services Gianfranco Meazza. Then there are the places which, unfortunately, increase the possibilities of voluntary gestures. «Prison - declares the chaplain of Bancali don Gaetano Galia - is a factor at risk due to isolation and a sense of shame. There should be more dialogue between the operators of the structure ». On this front, the guarantor of the prisoners of the Sassari prison, Gianfranco Favini, has intervened for a year and a half. "What I know is that the prison does not re-educate the prisoner, there is a lack of ministerial funds". What do people deprived of their liberty tell you? "Who want to go back to being men and women."