A problem that should concern everyone, each of us: because the struggle for rights and awareness is a transversal issue . Giorgia Soleri has returned to talk about the disease, vulvodynia , which has afflicted her for some time and which she has become the spokesperson for to raise awareness on the issue. But not only that, also to ask for rights and recognition.
She did it with a monologue , hosted by Tonica, the new program by Andrea Delogu. In her words he retraced her story, trying to raise awareness on the subject. Arguments that she then also took up in a long post published on Instagram accompanying the video of her intervention. Giorgia Soleri, the monologue on vulvodynia
“The year in which I started to feel bad was the one in which I started working, the year of the first tattoo, the year of the discovery of sex”, thus began her monologue Giorgia Soleri.
“I was 16 – she continued – since then I have always been accompanied by pain like a shadow . There have been years when I woke up with pain, ate with pain, went to school – when I did – with pain, went to bed with pain ”. Words that have the power to convey how debilitating this disease is and causes great suffering .
Then Giorgia continued: “He was my most devoted companion: silent but always present, obsessive and possessive, so much so as to remove everything and everyone, as in the most classic of toxic relationships”.
Not only did he talk about her difficult coexistence with the disease, but also how the others interacted with her , showing how it was not understood. In fact, there are those who called her crazy or anxious, stressed about her or accused her of inventing her symptoms: “In many moments I came to believe it and to consider that pain part of me. Giorgia and pain, pain and Giorgia: one thing “.
She didn’t miss even the hardest moments, those of a suffering that comes to include even the mind. Because coexistence with pain is terrible and Giorgia Soleri told it without filters , in a dialogue between herself and others, which is meant to be a way to inform, to raise awareness.
A coexistence that went on for “eight long years – she added – until two years ago this pain took a name and materialized for everyone. For me it has always been concrete, only the name was invisible: vulvodynia, pelvic contracture and pudendal neuropathy, also called chronic pelvic pain “.
The model explained that for her the moment of diagnosis was a state of liberation: “Because it is real and it also means the possibility of receiving therapy”. Then among the conclusions he added: “I don’t know if I’ll ever get well, but one thing is certain: a monster, when you look at it, is less scary ”. Giorgia Soleri, the recognition of a right
Both in the long Instagram post and at the end of the monologue Giorgia Soleri explained that she had renounced her health privacy only to ” Ask for a right : the social, political, medical and economic recognition of a still undervalued disease , but extremely disabling like vulvodynia “.
For some time now the girlfriend of Damiano dei Maneskin, model and activist on many issues, has decided to come out to talk about her illness and also to be the spokesperson for all those women who suffer from it and are not understood, or do not know how to give a name to that pain.
In the Instagram post he wanted to thank for the opportunity he had to talk about it on Rai 2: “Thanks Andrea Delogu for giving me the opportunity to talk about it to Tonica and get my voice, which is the voice of many other people, in television – he wrote accompanying the video of his monologue -. And if a year and a half ago, when I started talking about this nightmare, they told me that I would go to Rai 2, I would probably have laughed at them. Today insteadI share this post with tears in my eyes , and I strongly rediscover an awareness that I have had for a while now: we will not stop until we see our rights recognized “.
The Instagram post with Giorgia Soleri’s monologue
