Introduction: Many patients who feel dizzy complain of sadness, anxiety, stress and emotional trauma, significantly reducing their quality of life. The endocrine reaction of the body to the stressor dizziness/vertigo causes patients to become susceptible to so-called adaptive diseases and various health problems, as they experience different stages of stress: alertness, resistance, almost exhaustion and exhaustion.

Objective: This primary, transversal, descriptive and uncontrolled study aimed to verify the interrelationships between stress and labyrintopathys.

Methods: Were evaluated 264 patients of both sexes, in the region of Itabuna / BA, aged 18 years or older, with dizziness/vertigo and tinnitus, associated or not. Patients with cognitive difficulties to fill self-report questionnaires and/or with extra-labyrinthine dizziness were excluded from the sample. The results were obtained through univariate analysis.

Results: The concomitance of stress to the complaint of dizziness was verified in 200 patients (75.8%), being 39% in the resistance stage, 3% in the almost exhaustion stage and 58% in the exhaust stage. The main physical symptoms reported by the patients were problems with memory (61.7%); constant physical exhaustion (58.3%); muscular tension (55.3%); excessive fatigue (54.6%) and insomnia (53.4%). The main psychological symptoms were daily anxiety/anguish (66.3%); emotional hypersensitivity (58.3%); constant thinking about one subject (53.4%); excessive irritability (51.1%); apathy, Depression or prolonged rabies (43.2%).

Conclusion: There was a significant association between dizziness/vertigo, stress and precipitation of specific symptoms of common mental disorders.