The two women who arrived at his clinic in Ukraine were "somehow different from all the other patients," Dr Andriy Kiselyov, a psychiatrist, remembered telling a colleague. They had a form of depression that did not respond to traditional treatment.The women shared another trait. Both were returning from working as caregivers in Italy.
Soon, he started to notice that others who had returned were similarly affected. He and his colleague started informally referring to the malaise as the "Italy syndrome."
