A experiência da ansiedade no início da vida adulta

Abstract

The main objective of this study is to present how the anxiety experienced by young adults is understood in today's society. Thus, it was necessary to characterize the beginning of adult life in contemporaneity, to point out the differences between the experience of anxiety and anxiety disorders, and to investigate the phenomenological-existential psychologist's attitude towards the phenomenon of

anxiety. To achieve the objectives, the methodology used was an exploratory- descriptive study that had as a technical procedure the narrative review of literature,

which consisted of a search in a virtual medium for articles and books on the subject of this work. It was noticed that the changes and responsibilities that arise in early adulthood can cause suffering to young people, making them prone to anxiety, whether “normal” or “pathological”. Anxiety considered "normal" refers to natural worry, its symptoms are similar to fear, such as sweating, tachycardia and gastrointestinal complications, however, it becomes "pathological" when anxiety begins to be persistent in order to harm the person's daily life. The psychotherapeutic work must take into account the uniqueness of the young adult in the clinic, thus, through epoché, the existential-phenomenological psychologist will be able to understand the experiences brought by the client in the psychotherapeutic environment, including the experiences of anxiety. Thus, the psychologist's job should be to understand the young person's “way of being” and to help them find other life possibilities, in addition to the “anxious way of being”.