What country is this?

Portugal has always been known as a quiet, peaceful, sunny country, with a mild mood, turned to the sea, with good beaches, good accommodation, good food, stuffed with beautiful landscapes, attracting tourists from all over the world, because, besides all these natural characteristics, our country has always been fertile in the art of well received. And even without being able to compete with the great international powers, Portugal has grown in recent decades, has modernized and progressed immensely without losing, however, its essence and its matrix. For years the illusory feeling prevailed that ‘bad things’ were just happening outside, because inside, despite the few resources, we were still ‘a paradise by the planted seaside’, living in peace and safely one day at a time. But, looking objectively and dislikely to the problem, we have to recognize so much that it costs us, that Portugal is quite different today from what was in other times and that that poetic view of the past has faded. It is no longer a country as safe as it used to be, with regard to health, the lack of response is increasing and the increase in the cost of living is feeling in the stock of each with all the consequences that result. And we didn’t stay here. Domestic violence does not stop increasing what is ashamed to everyone, sexual abuse is on the agenda, corruption is a scourge that seems to have come to stay and in schools the climate of aggressiveness and violence between students is very worrying. It can be said that these behaviors have always existed, I do not doubt, which there seems to be no doubt is that, at the present moment, they have other contours, become more evident and reach levels never seen. Domestic violence, by the way what we say is a problem that we have not been able to solve. In January this year the number of women who lost their lives is scary. How long will we have to continue to watch this bleak show? No one has a word to say? Sexual abuses are cross-sectional in society, some of which, to our greater shame, coming from those who had an obligation to give an example and to whom another type of behavior and a different posture was required. Also in this area it is necessary to act energetically and above all cut evil from the root. Cost what it costs. Donates to those who hurt. However, one does not want to confuse gestures of affection and tenderness that in everyday life we ​​can have with each other away from any perverse meaning, with the so -called sexual sexual harassment. In my profession these affections are particularly important as a sign of solidarity and proximity that convey confidence and favor the doctor-sick relationship.
To speak of corruption is to denounce a dishonest and unfortunate procedure that has been sadly to settle and create roots in an unprecedented dimension. Recent statistical data show us that it has increased especially among those who serve the country in which we deposited our trust and gave our support. Increasingly we question ourselves: after all believe in who? And will justice be able to punish the offenders? And what about aggressiveness and violence among students in schools? Do we want to put ourselves at the level of the worst one has seen abroad? We still present those shocking images that television showed us in a young school where a student barbarily assaulted a colleague prostrate to the ground while others instead of giving help, filmed this act, no less reprehensible behavior.
If we analyze with exemption and common sense all situations we always find the absence of a structured and functional family at the origin of the problem. On the other hand, the lack of mental health is in full responding to the cases that need it. Inheritance, toxicodependencies, alcohol consumption that may be at the source of these risk behaviors and that require pharmacological treatment and medical follow -up.
What country is this? It is the question we ask ourselves, but more than questions we need is solutions. Each of us can do something, however small, for the country and society, but to those who have direct responsibilities in the matter, more. We cannot keep pretending that nothing goes on, leaving to others what we should do. What country is this? It is ours, who is asking us urgent and effective help. And what will be our answer? Are we going to act or do we prefer to be silent?

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