The famous psychiatrist: Facebook must be closed. It's the shelter of frustrated people.

Facebook must be closed. That's Vitorino Andreoli, psychiatrist, writer and head of the Department of Psychiatry in Verona-Soave, as well as member of the New York Academy of Sciences. In an interview with “l Giannale”, Andreol does not spare criticism of social networks, which he considers the bad of modern times.

“Facebook must be closed. We've lost individuality, we believe we have a power that doesn't really exist. The individual is not in what he says but in what he does not say. While social media make us say everything, habitating us. Social networks are a need to exist because we're dead. They create a compounding environment for frustrated people. When we don't know the difference between virtual and real, then this is a dangerous thing. Virtual reality extends even into real life, enters our homes”, he says.

Andreol says that the most vulnerable to this phenomenon are the young.

I'm very worried. We can't help them. Parents ' examples are missing, which they too need to avoid feeling frustrated. Evil is never in sum. There's something wrong with the social level”, he says.

For the leading psychiatrist, the most common disease is not depression. He adds something to that statement. It's feeling unhappy, unfortunate. How can we be happy? We live in flight, which accumulates and generates anger. And this one generates violence”, he says.

According to him, one of the <x0patologies” gripping modern man is the mania for power. “Puse is social illness”, he says.

Even with regard to happiness, Andreol has a different attitude than the usual one.

I myself am an unhappy person. Happiness has to do with me, it's the perception that someone has something to do with it. And joy is ours, the choir. It's collective, not selfish. This is exactly what is possible”, he says.