Saúde e felicidade em tempos de pandemia: é possível?

Abstract

For more than a year, we have been living on a daily basis, immersed in a context of fear, doubts, uncertainties and anguish due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which officially started in Brazil in March 2020. We have seen our lives turned upside down: we lost our usual locus in the world -work, school, community etc. –and we started to occupy, almost exclusively, the domestic environment, due to the measures of distancing and/or social isolation. All these situations provoked and provoke significant impacts in our life, given the new demands that were presentedto us. Faced with this fertile scenario, conducive to physical and mental illness, considered here in an indivisible way, it seems to us even more chimerical to think about happiness. Would it be possible, then, to live healthy and happy in the face of somany misfortunes? Thus, this manuscript aims to discuss the possibilities for building health and happiness in times of pandemic. Although building health and happiness amidst so many adversities that the pandemic imposes on us is, apparently, something extremely complex, it is necessary and urgent to reflect on the various real and possible ways for a more harmonious and balanced life.