Depressão como sofrimento psíquico na contemporaneidade: uma compreensão fenomenológico-existencial

Abstract

Diagnoses of depression have been increasingly frequent in recent years, a period marked by intense changes in society that came with the internet phenomenon, the change in socioeconomic paradigm with the advance of neoliberalism and in the interpersonal relationships that surround all this. Thus, in the light of a phenomenological-existential analysis, we sought to understand how the modification of these aspects affected the human psyche, causing a considerable increase in psychological diseases such as depression. Here, we tried to understand the social dynamics involved in the illness process, not only related to the disease itself, but the path taken that goes from the understanding of living in contemporary society to the diagnosis, medicalization and psychological consultations, bringing a reflection about the role played by these professionals who systematically end up being part of a vicious cycle that attenuates the mechanisms of action of these types of psychological disorders. The phenomenological-existential principles bring, therefore, a reflection about the deep character of this pathology, in addition to directing us in the care when debating the relationships that exist between time and boredom today.