Tratar transtornos de ansiedade em situações de pandemia

Eduardo Trachtenberg; Henrique Marques Fogaça; Marcelo Feijó de Mello

doi:10.25118/issn.2965-1832.2021.604

Authors

Eduardo Trachtenberg Médico Psiquiatra pelo HCPA - UFRGS. Professor de Psicofarmacologia nas residências do Hospital São Pedro, Fundação Mario Martins e Hospital Bruno Born
Henrique Marques Fogaça Médico Psiquiatra, Associado Titular da ABP, Diretor Geral do IPq/SC, Diretor Vice-Secretário da ACP e Psiquiatra do Instituto São José e da UP Clínicas
Marcelo Feijó de Mello Médico psiquiatra, professor livre-docente adjunto do Departamento de Psiquiatria da Escola Paulista de Medicina da Universidade Federal de São Paulo - Unifesp e professor pleno da Faculdade de Medicina do Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0475-4729

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25118/issn.2965-1832.2021.604

Keywords:

anxiety, anxiety disorders, pandemic, mental health

Abstract

Am I anxious or with Covid? This and other doubts have been swirling the internet since the beginning of the pandemic. According to the Google search engine, last year Brazilians searched three times more for anxiety than in the last 16 years. One thing is for sure, the pandemic is messing with everyone's mental health. In addition to causing problems in the economy, in the affective life and at work, it also makes people mentally more vulnerable. The side effects of social isolation are reflected in increased anxiety in Brazil, which is already considered the most anxious country in the world, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO). A survey carried out in September 2020 by the Ministry of Health pointed out that anxiety is the most present mental disorder in the pandemic. About 86.5% of the participants showed symptoms of the disease. And that's what we're going to talk about on today's ABPTV, "Anxiety in times of a pandemic".