Interdependencies between COVID-19, Mental Illness and Living Uneasiness

Abstract

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

The Relationship between Basic Education and Higher Education in a Pandemic Context: The Portuguese Situation

“…Currently, the COVID-19 pandemic and its multiple social, economic and educational effects is an unavoidable and worrying issue (Carmo et al, 2020;Martins et al, 2021;Sá & Serpa, 2020a;, as well as their many and profound implications for the relationship between basic education and higher education (Sá & Serpa, 2020b, 2020c. At the time of the writing of this commentary, the number of deaths caused by COVID-19 in Portugal, on March 12, 2021, and according to official data, was 16,650 individuals (General-Directorate for Health, 2021a).…”