The Argentine press has revealed that Ezequiel “Pucho” Lavezzi, the 38-year-old footballer who played for Paris Saint-Germain and Napoli, and who hung up his boots in 2019, has been hospitalized since the 7th of this month in a psychiatric center in Buenos Aires. . The former striker suffers from a disorder called hypomania, according to what his lawyer explained. “It is a chronic mental disorder that can lead a person to mutilate themselves. They have already suffered the consequences of this disease in the past,” said Mauricio D'Alessandro.
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The problems appear to derive from “problematic consumption” of alcohol. Lavezzi himself admitted to the “El Trece” TV channel that he felt the need to ask for help. “I tried to clean myself in another clinic in Buenos Aires, but I couldn't. I didn't have any other medicine… It's difficult, but I have to do it,” he explained, referring to his hospitalization. Psychiatry Center. “I have to change my life and habits for my son. I have gone above and beyond.”
The same TV channel states that the former striker was injured in the abdomen and broke his collarbone at the end of last year. “At dawn he started screaming that there were people in the house. His brother looked everywhere and found a pair of scissors. He told him that there was no one. Ezequiel Lavezzi insisted that there were people. At that point he entered a room and the former player’s lawyer explained at the time that Ezequiel felt a sharp pain. While he was falling, he lost his mind, and his brother caught him, and they both fell to the ground, with superficial wounds caused by scissors.
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