One Italian teen a day tries to commit suicide - report

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 13 - One Italian teenager tries to commit suicide every day, the national federation of paediatricians (FIMP) said Thursday.
    "Eevery day in our country a girl or a boy, adolescent and also pre-adolescent, attempts suicide," said FIMP President Antonio D'Avino at the body's national congress at Riva del Garda.
    "Cases have risen by 75% in the last two years.
    "And 100,000 youngsters have chosen the path of social death, the so-called 'hikikomori', isolated in their rooms, fleeing from interaction with the world, overwhelmed by fear of being judged, on their own.
    "These are shocking numbers, due to a post-COVID fall-out".
    (ANSA).