Depression, anxiety, and despair in health residents

This manuscript provides a review of the recent literature on anxiety and depressive disorders. In the last decades there has been an increase in the diagnoses of depression and anxiety, which are caused by the excellence of psychic suffering and responsible for incapacitating thousands of individuals to daily life. In ancient Greece, depression and its symptoms were known as melancholy. Anxiety has been termed anxiety neurosis and Angstneurosis. However, regardless of the name, the symptoms of both diseases are the same, of course, maintaining the proportion of each. The aim of the manuscript is to seek subsidies in specialized literature to reflect on possible solutions to a public health problem that has for centuries puzzled experts around the world. This review will serve as a theoretical support for the development of research in various health areas. The method for collecting the data that compose the text was based on the bibliographic review of several papers published in periodicals in recent years. With regard to health professionals and an increase in depressive and anxious conditions, most of the problems are considered to be caused by the enormous workload, which generates exacerbated stress that culminates in depression, anxiety and hopelessness.