”I felt the strongest pain of my life, I screamed without stopping”: Eleonora Daniele looks back on her family’s drama –

• The presenter talked about the death of her brother Luigi, which occurred in 2015
• The man was 44 years old and suffered from autism, he was hospitalized in an institution

Eleonora Daniele she returned to talk about the pain for the death of the brother Luigipassed away at 44 years old in 2015.

The Venetian presenter wrote the book ‘But are we all crazy?’in which he traces the pain of losing his family member, who suffered from autism and was in an institution.

Interviewed by AdnKronos Salute she explained: “He suffered from autismtreated for years as a carpetwithout understanding the substantial difference between mental illness and serious mental disability”.

Eleonora still misses him even though almost ten years have passed since his passing.

“The thing I miss most is not having had the time. Because you have an idea of ​​salvation, you family member still want to save the person next to you, you want to save them from suffering, from prejudice and stigma, from bad thoughts and from all the evil in the world, from the wickedness of people who don’t understand , from ignorance”he said.

“You feel lost, alone and abandoned. You feel desperate and live desperatelyyou don’t sleep at night”he underlined.

The situation for families Experiencing conditions like this can be very complex.

“These sick people sometimes don’t let you sleep, because of their illness you have sleepless nights. There are people who lock themselves in their rooms, out of fear or shame. But can you live locked up all your life?”he stated.

Eleonora was catapulted into this situation from an early age: “I am the youngest of 4 children. Two older sisters, then Luigi and after 6 years me. In my childhood I lived her adolescence as a motherbecause my mother was working and my sisters were already away from home. As a child I found myself facing my brother’s most difficult moment, when he was no longer a child and you no longer know what to do, because you can more or less manage a child, while you can’t handle a big boy.”.

Luigi was transferred to an institute in Treviso: “There was no longer any escape or solution, aggressive attacks had now become the order of the day and my father was no longer able to contain the physical impetus of a twenty-year-old boy who was having too many crises, self-harming and otherwise. ”.

Then I landed in a facility Padovathe city where Eleonora was born and raised. So on February 17, 2015 the death of Luigi.

“In that instant I felt the strongest pain of my life, I screamed without stoppingsunk into a ravine from which I still haven’t climbed back out”he confessed.