Gabriele Parpiglia in Naples to present his book Under Panic Attack

“Sottoattacco di panico – La mia storia, il mio burnout, la mia ripartenza”, the new book by Gabriele Parpiglia, published by Mursia, is in bookstores. The presentation will be held on Thursday 5 June at 18.30:185 pm at the Gold Tower Hotel in Naples (via Brecce a Sant'Erasmo, XNUMX), the author will talk with the radio-TV host and author Gaetano Gaudiero.

“My name is Gabriele Parpiglia and I am a man who lives with an invisible but debilitating disease. I suffer from panic attacks, a quiet enemy that has turned my existence upside down. But today I am here to share my story with you. And who knows, maybe you will recognize a little of your own experience in my words, because this battle against panic is common to many of us. Yes, this is my story, but deep down it could also be a little of yours.”

Not a personal diary, but an intense story of a radical change. Not a manifesto, but a testimony that is anything but neutral. It is the voice of someone who has lived a strong experience and now sees clearly. Gabriele shares his inner world with rigor, irony and depth, without giving lessons, but showing what happens when you stop controlling everything and seeking approval, to finally dedicate yourself to yourself.

The preface is by Dr. Anna Rita Verardo

“I met Gabriele a few years ago: we had planned to meet in my studio for a literary project in which I had been happily involved. Gabriele was nice, kind and very generous in giving us his point of view. But after a few sentences I felt like I was in a blender. He was a mix of things that made my head spin. There was nothing out of place in him, on the contrary, I liked his way of being: brilliant, intelligent, ironic, and yet after a while a part of me became alarmed. He moved with a rapid intelligence, at times pressing, as if he could not afford the luxury of slowness. A vitality full of ideas, connections, enthusiasms. But looking at him carefully, it seemed that everything happened with a held breath, as if he lived in a constant state of emergency. While he spoke, I observed him. And suddenly a strange thought came to mind, not consistent with our meeting: “But how does this guy manage to live like this?”. He had large and restless eyes, a lively look and tired at the same time. A smile that never reached the end, as if held back. And, around him, an atmosphere that seemed to give him shape and at the same time devour him. He never stopped. The phone vibrated every thirty seconds. Every sentence was interrupted by a request, a response, an urgency. His head was full of ideas, a thousand projects, a thousand openings. But there was something disjointed in that density. A race without oxygen. After a couple of hours, I asked him if he was okay on that roller coaster without breaks and he told me something that gave shape to my initial alarm: he wasn’t sleeping. Two, three hours a night, maybe. He got sick often, continuously. His body sent clear signals, but his head was ahead, out of phase, too busy holding everything up to be able to listen. That kind of exhaustion that doesn’t come suddenly. It’s a wear and tear, a fault that opens up slowly. And Gabriele was there, unaware. And he was in the blender, I had only heard him”.

The author

Gabriele Parpiglia is a journalist, author, TV series producer and writer. He has worked, among others, with Maurizio Costanzo and Maria De Filippi. He has been a reality TV author, TV and podcast host, and radio voice for over a decade, but writing is his true passion.