The World Health Organization is warning of a looming mental illness crisis as a result of “the isolation, the fear, the uncertainty, the economic turmoil, brought on by the pandemic.” Italy is already grappling with it. Host Marco Werman speaks with Laura Parolin, president of the Order of Psychologists in Lombardy, one of the areas of northern Italy worst-hit by the virus.
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