Penelope Canonico
08/28/2021 5:11 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 08/28/2021 5:11 PM
The syndrome of tiredness and satiety
.
Overwhelmed minds of the digital panopticon that reflect a puzzle of stories tinged with the same horizon of experiences.
After a year and a half of
pandemic
, the
tendency to disconnect is
gaining ground in the contours of the society that inhabits us.
Some got off
social networks
, others replaced
television with streaming
and even
abandoned
the
constant
online communication via
to avoid the avalanche of information. They seek to deconstruct contemporary practices to find another dialectic that
frees them from anxiety and stress
stimulated by different resonance boxes.
“
Stress is the body's response to a stressor
.
The virus, the news and the fears are among those prevalent in the pandemic.
The response of our body will depend on each person and their personal history ”, defines Verónica Posteraro, a psychologist graduated from the University of Buenos Aires, specializing in anxiety.
Convey tranquility
"Pedal faster, mom. The virus can catch up with us!" Pilar (5) shouts as she rides her bicycle with wheels through her relatives' neighborhood to leave a drawing for each one on their doorstep.
"If you go out, the bug can kill you," feared little Helena, her two-year-old sister, at the beginning of the pandemic.
Today, he
comes back from the garden commenting that a colleague is bad because he wanted to share his cookies
and lets out a "lost" every time he crosses a pedestrian without a mask.
María de los Ángeles Videla with her daughters Helena and Pilar.
The girls went through stressful situations due to the pandemic.
“
I stopped watching TV because my two daughters are little and heard everywhere talking about the coronavirus
. This caused them a lot of concern, it made them go through stressful and fearful situations at an early age. We all have uncertainties, but
we have to smile at our children and transmit tranquility
”,
María de los Ángeles Videla (34)
tells
Clarín
, by audio message, while she finishes preparing dinner.
He chose to disconnect the cable and take the tablet from the girls.
“They
only use YouTube, Disney Plus or Netflix kids
.
I lend them the cell phone only for games with the Internet in disconnected mode ”, he describes and mentions a myriad of
tantrums and nightmares
that his daughters suffered.
"They were able to contrast them with the recommendations that the pediatrician gave them," he says.
The specialist Posteraro argues that, in children, stress can appear as hyperactivity, nightmares, regression to previous stages (such as peeing) and fear of taking off or returning to preschool.
Streaming before television
Gabriela Díaz (59) is a retired teacher, is about to graduate as a lawyer and recovered from cancer in the midst of a pandemic.
He never had too much feeling with social networks.
“I do not agree with people exposing their privacy and what is happening with television distresses me.
I prefer to read and watch a movie that I choose and not what they want to sell me.
I regret that political programs are dedicated to
offenses and aggressions instead of analyzing social problems
”, it is downloaded.
Gabriela Diaz recovered from cancer in the middle of the pandemic.
Today he distracts himself with diet readings or gym classes.
You prefer to be distracted browsing the Internet.
“I use it to find something that benefits me like readings on nutrition or gym class,” he says.
Adriana Esper (61) also left the small screen because everything she perceived hurt her and generated too much stress.
“I felt a fierce aggressiveness and there came a time when I got tired of hearing all the time talking about a bug that had the world on its knees.
Today, I can't see anything, everything bothers me.
Usually,
I only consume foreign series on Netflix and
I read the news online because it gives me the possibility to open the note of my interest
”, he confesses.
She says she feels happier and has found calm since she made the choice to cancel everything.
The psychoanalyst Ricardo Antonowicz summarizes that television content was transformed into a space for personal opinions with political gain and that what is transmitted always produces
a dynamic of constant tension
.
“The population is choosing to enjoy film production (fiction) because on television they only find information that confuses and frightens them.
Faced with these concerns and lack of interest, added to the difficult times we are going through, the media should rethink the programming of information to
help regain that lost joy
, "he says.
Covid, inflation and insecurity.
For Patricia Ester Gutiérrez (45), a Nursing student, these are the only issues that TV addresses today.
“
You always talk about the same thing.
I put it aside because the news generated a lot of anxiety and a bit of stress, my head worked all the time, ”he argues.
Deprived of social activities, she confesses that her habits changed and she became more sedentary: now she watches series to distract herself.
Patricia Gutiérrez chooses to watch series to distract herself.
Elizabeth Pavez Bustamante (51) is also recognized within the group disconnected from minute to minute.
"In the first place, I consider that watching TV is a waste of time and on the other hand, I am outraged that there is so much insecurity and violence," he says.
He is also not interested in the use of social networks and
changed habits by spending more time outdoors
.
"The pandemic helped me to be more in contact with my daughters," he says.
Elizabeth Bustamante changed habits by spending more time outdoors.
Network toxicity
Silvana Trotta (57), a social psychologist and seminarian on gender issues,
closed her Facebook and Twitter accounts
for several months.
“Social networks show a way of interacting with the other that is quite hostile and not very supportive.
I think that the breaking of the real social bond has its collateral effects in these areas ”, he laments with a lump in his throat.
Before events, it is people's reactions that cause you anxiety.
He is anguished at the abuse and mistreatment of trivializing news or ridiculing a person.
"The real world is chaotic and in the networks it is presented under a continuous present: a television socket can say" 100 people died for ... ", and it is repeated every hour.
At the end of the day it seems that the dead were thousands ”, he says.
Silvana Trotta is a psychologist and for a time she closed her Facebook and Twitter accounts.
In his case, these emotions are not linked only to the context of the pandemic.
Silvana suffered episodes of stress in the form of insomnia, chronic headaches, muscle aches and gastritis, which led to medical guards.
“I had a very serious situation in 2019. I was shocked, by a post I shared about machismo and a former student was in charge of 'reposting'.
For that reason, I had panic attacks and a lot of fear.
I had tachycardia when I googled my own name to see if I
found publications that spoke ill of me,
"he tells this newspaper.
The problem of repetition
Agustín Ferreira (31) chooses to live with just and necessary information and watch more streaming content.
But also, "I reduced communications through WhatsApp to connect with nature and the surrounding stimuli instead of being aware of the mobile device." His decision was influenced by the post-pandemic that led to depression, psychiatric consultation and subsequent treatment for anxiety that he still performs.
Ricardo Corral, psychiatrist and President of the Argentine Association of Psychiatrists, understands that what most influenced the perception of reality is the bombardment of information that reaches us through the traditional mass media and currently
promoted by social networks
.
“The mere repetition of correct and good information but permanently throughout the 24 hours every day in the various media, increased the fears and anxiety of many people,
added to the circulation of erroneous and false information
. This combination generated in society a feeling of uncertainty that fuels concerns ”, he argues.
Ailén Amaya (28) disconnected from certain social media sites to avoid exposure to overinformation on a subject that, she considers, should be handled with extreme responsibility and care. Talk about the coronavirus. “
In the short term it was imperceptible to notice how it affected me
, but it began to generate anxiety, insomnia and nightmares. When I went to sleep, I would open Instagram and the count of deaths from Covid ended up being the last thing I saw before closing my eyes. It was traumatic, ”he recalls.
“Being disconnected from technology
meant connecting more with myself
and analyzing how I felt in the present.
For example, if I had a good day, I would go to sleep with that feeling.
When I disconnected, I stopped worrying about what could happen the next day: if we were going to remain isolated, if there were going to be vaccines or not, ”he illustrates.
Custom content
Like many of the other interviewees in these notes, he chooses series and movie platforms because they allow him to
define the subject around his tastes and moods
.
After a year and a half of pandemic, he resumed the sessions with his psychologist because the initial anxiety became pathological when it manifested itself in fears and anguish.
Posteraro defines
anxiety disorders
as psycho-emotional illnesses translated into panic attacks, phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and agoraphobia.
“Despite the economic crisis, consultations have doubled in the pandemic.
We even refer patients to other colleagues because we can't cope ”, he points out.
He advises reducing everything that can make us nervous or irritable, whether it is watching the news excessively, demanding too much or wanting to be aware of everything.
“The ideal is to practice meditation or a physical activity, do crafts, read a book or any other task that distracts us.
It is vital to be attentive to our body.
Nobody but one can know what the limit is
”, he recommends.
Ruben Dario Fabbre (58) is also included in the group that stopped being aware of everything that happens to live a little in peace.
“It is a life choice that I had made since before the pandemic.
I prefer to watch streaming movies before conventional TV ”, he synthesizes.
Rubén Fabbre also stopped being aware of everything that happens to live a little more in peace.
According to the South Korean philosopher and essayist Byung-Chul Han, "violence, which is immanent in the neoliberal system, no longer destroys the individual from outside. It does so from within and causes depression."
Let's turn off the computer and the mobile and look for the answer to enjoy the aroma of time.
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