Open AccessInterdependencies between COVID-19, Mental Illness and Living Uneasiness
Author(s) -
José Garrucho Martins,
Carlos Miguel Ferreira,
Sandro Serpa
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
academic journal of interdisciplinary studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.148
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 2281-3993
pISSN - 2281-4612
DOI - 10.36941/ajis-2021-0001
Subject(s) - mental illness , pandemic , forgetting , covid-19 , interdependence , psychiatry , social distance , psychology , mental health , medicine , sociology , social science , virology , outbreak , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , cognitive psychology
The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a profound change in the daily practices and symbolic representations of individuals, with strong social, economic and political implications, which no one is immune to. This article seeks to understand how a pandemic, specifically COVID-19, can generate or potentiate different forms of mental illness and living uneasiness. Thus, the aim is to know the varied manifestations of psychological suffering, from mild psychiatric disorders to the most intrusive ones, not forgetting the forms of widespread suffering which the pandemic causes and which are not reduced to the categories defined by the process of psychiatry. The relationships between mental illness, living uneasiness and COVID-19 are complex and multidimensional.
Received: 13 October 2020 / Accepted: 12 December 2020/ Published: 17 January 2021