Pandemia de COVID-19 e as narrativas de cuidado num dispositivo da rede de saúde mental de Niterói-RJ: reflexões e afetações

Abstract

Due to the arrival of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, in Brazil in 2020, and the decree of social isolation due to the increase in the number of cases of the disease, strategies to reduce contagion by the virus needed be implemented, and mental health care in the Psychosocial Care Network needed to be reconfigured. In view of the pandemic scenario, the objective of this work is to share perceptions of a period in which the researcher worked at a Psychosocial Care Center (CAPS) in Niterói-RJ city, as well as of her meeting, through interviews, with five professionals of psychology who also worked in CAPS in the same city. The research was built from fragments, that is, historical rescues, memories and experience narratives that integrate the body of the text. In this sense, based on the experience of the researcher, the interviewees, and a political and methodological commitment to writing, in which the text has different spelling styles to point out its various modulations and compositions, we will share the effects of work experiences and the modulations of care offered to service users in this period and which is arranged in three stages: memories of work at CAPS before the pandemic, the arrival of the pandemic, and the opening phase, that is, with vaccination.