DOC – In your hands 2, Gabriel’s fragility is (also) ours

Warning: the article contains spoilers on the tenth episode of DOC – In your hands

The representation of fragility on television is still something very smoky because it is as if seriality struggled to find the best way to do it justice: either it is white or it is black, or it is inextricable drama or temporary malaise like a simple headache. . At a time when millions of people around the world are forced to deal with the psychological aftermath that Covid has brought into their lives, it is commendable that DOC – In your hands has decided to face the problem head on and to do so not only with great sincerity, but also with respect and truth. The character of Gabrielbrilliantly performed by Alberto Malanchinoin fact, he measured himself with the panic attack dictated by a stressful condition that led him to lose reference points and to try to understand in which direction to go to heal and get better. Where he believed that the drugs would solve everything, psychological support intervened to try to put his life in order and understand the origin of the problem, but something did not go the right way.

It was believed that Gabriel’s problem was solely the breakup with Elisa (Simona Tabasco), and that it would have been enough to reconcile with her to put an end to panic attacks – an all too optimistic diagnosis since, those who know them know well that panic attacks need a very long training to be overcome. everything -, but what we had escaped was the maximum crisis linked to the outbreak of Covid in the ward DOC – In your hands, when Gabriel was forced to witness the death of the Ethiopian wife the family had chosen for him by consuming themselves since sense of guilt because, had it not been for him, the girl would not have gone to Milan and would not have met such an inauspicious fate. Hence an impending weight that has grown bigger and bigger in her heart up to the most extreme solution: pretend to be Covid positive leaving the ward alone in an attempt to recover and piece the puzzle back together.

As we know, the situation has not improved with the passage of time, and has led Gabriel to such a burning malaise that it prompted him to attempt an extreme gesture by alarming all his colleagues, from Andrea Fanti to Elisa herself, who had not realized how much he suffered and was hurt. In this, DOC – In your hands hit the mark once again: after taking us by the hand through the cursed lanes of March 2020, the emotional and psychological journey taken by Gabriel proved to be a courageous choice because, after all, that emotional and psychological journey is also ours. Although social networks repeat to us how important it is to accept ourselves as we are, the truth is that we still live in the age of infallibility who does not seem to tolerate either extreme fragility, which needs its time to crouch, or the request for help because, after all, everyone has their problems and it is not right to monopolize the attention of others. DOCin the tenth episode, he made us understand that, albeit in a different way, Gabriel’s state could have been ours, showing us not only suffering, but also that way out that we all deserve to see on the horizon.

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