MASSAGEM EM JOVENS COM SINTOMAS DEPRESSIVOS

Depression has become a problem of great importance these days and seems to be related to a reaction to the modern world. The World Health Report shows that urbanization, aging and globalized lifestyle changes combine to make chronic and non-communicable diseases - including depression - increasingly important causes of morbidity and mortality. Objective of this research is to verify the benefits of massage in young people with depressive symptoms. Methodology: a quantitative and exploratory research will be developed, through surveys of reference data. And the criteria for inclusion as summaries of articles and books on head, face and body massage techniques applied to young people with symptoms of depression will be used between the years 2001 and 2019, with analysis of the comparative and percentage data. Results: in this research were found one hundred and forty articles, being selected only twenty-two using the research tools Pubmed, Lilacs, Google Scholar, Bireme and Scielo. Conclusion: In view of the observed aspects, the physiological, emotional and bioenergetic effects caused in people with depressive symptoms can be analyzed, with massages that offer beneficial effects on depression and correlate these effects with the central nervous system. Seen then, that there is release of endorphins through the massages decreasing the depressive picture.