Abstract
This article addresses the relationship between democracy, mental health and pandemic. To this end, it invites the reader, in the first part of the text, to revisit the amazement of the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic by means of a film, whose characters place on the scene distinct subjective positions that carry the power to challenge our place in the necropolitical scenarios of the Brazilian health crisis. In the second part of the text, some of the crossroads of democracy and mental health today are explained, following the example of the propagation of anti-democratic discourses and the recrudescence of the weaknesses of the Psychosocial Care Network (RAPS). In the last section, we share an experience of Permanent Health Education in progress with workers of RAPS and Primary Health Care, and the attempt to reposition the goals for ethical-political action in the field of mental health against paralysis and anesthesia, enacted by the capitalist logic of the necroliberal state, which not infrequently engages the affections, bodies, and acts of health workers in daily practices.
Keywords:
Democracy; Pandemic; Mental Health; Psychosocial Care; Permanent Health Education