Pessoas com sofrimento mental em recovery: trajetórias de vida

Abstract

The present study aimed to know and understand the life trajectories of people with mental suffering in the recovery process, as well as to identify which experiences were used by them to promote the restoration of life. This is a research with a qualitative approach, using narrative interviews as an instrument for data production. As an inclusion criterion, being over eighteen years old, being a user with mental suffering in a recovery process indicated by professionals from the Psychosocial Care Network of the city of Montes Claros / MG for the end of data production, the saturation criterion was used. To start the narrative interviews held in places defined by the interviewees and recorded in audio to be submitted to literal transcription, participants were asked to tell their life stories with the experiences they considered relevant. Subsequently, they were submitted to Discourse Analysis from the perspective of Orlandi and the discursive objects extracted from this analysis allowed to understand the life trajectories of people with mental suffering in recovery interviewed. Childhood experiences and conflicting family relationships were identified as responsible for the breaking of family and emotional ties that favored encounters with drugs, alcohol, entering the crime, prostitution, marked by wandering and people on the streets. As ways of restoring life, the resumption of socioeconomic, affective and religious aspects, self-care, ethical and moral values, recognition of the disease and maintenance of treatment were identified, correlating the main concepts of recovery. It was evident that, regardless of the diagnosis of pre-established mental illness, users may have elements in common in their trajectories. The study of the narratives made it possible to understand the life trajectory of the interviewees as a recognition that the insertion in the family and the preservation of affective bonds in the youth phase, linked to spiritual comfort, as well as access to public policies of the tools of recovery to encourage care and health can help build a healthier adult life.