Abstract
This work analyzes as its main theme the “PANDEMIC COVID-19: STRATEGIES TO REDUCE THE DISORDERS OF GENERALIZED ANXIETY IN PANAMA (TAG)” that addresses different points of great importance for our personal and professional knowledge. With the aim of proposing strategies to reduce the symptoms of GAD as a product of the COVID1-9 pandemic. This study was based on the selection of studies, research that supports the consequences of previous pandemics that have caused mental illnesses, especially generalized anxiety disorder and thus being able to suggest strategies to decrease this disorder due to the social isolation generated by the current pandemic COVID-19, which has invaded Panama since March 9, 2020 and which until now has kept us socially isolated for more than 40 days and has infected thousands of Panamanians and hundreds of deaths according to data generated by the Ministry of Health through of daily conferences by the country’s television stations. These results from previous pandemics indicate that short-term or prolonged isolation (15 days or more) onwards has severe effects on health where the deficits are at the physiological, biological, psychological and social levels and that they increase due to the time subjected to isolation. Social ; It should be noted that in terms of psychological problems, GAD is mostly increased and to reduce said disorder, several strategies are going to be enunciated that we can use to reduce its impact on society, especially in our country, these strategies have been effective in similar situations. ; Let us remember that this pandemic and its consequences have been a unique event so far for hundreds of years and that it is affecting the population worldwide.
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