Challenges of the pandemic in the relationship between mental health and the environment - Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem

Challenges of the pandemic in the relationship between mental health and the environment |

Thinking about society’s relationships with the environment should be implicit in our way of living and being in the world. We are facing countless limitations and psychological impacts, with challenges that impose us to contemplate and analyze certain phenomena present in the daily life of any living being in the pandemic context.

The proposal in this text is to reflect on the fundamental articulation between man, the environment and mental health, based on three axes: reflections on the environment with all the sociocultural envelope that does not depend on the pandemic; considerations about the liability of psychological distress analyzing the absolute experience immersed in communication/information technologies, addressing the Felicism ideology, encompassed in this process; finally, the ‘master-slave’ dialectic, to understand the work processes and psychological distress in a context in which economic and social relations are processed with the imposition of remote work in many sectors.

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