O cotidiano das pessoas portadoras do vírus HIV com transtorno mental associado

Abstract

This work is about the daily lives of HIV positive people who suffer from an associated mental disorder by making social distress which goes through and leaves impressions on these daily lives clear. This study was carried out in Pelotas and patients registered at the UFPEL Hospital-Dia participated. The patients were HIV positive and/or CAPS users and/or another mental health service users. They also took two or more psychiatric medications. The thematic oral story was used as a data collection method because, through the interviews, it enabled people s speeches that went through experiences in their daily lives, making the understanding of the research subject easy. It was investigated how much the HIV positive people who suffer from an associated mental disorder knew about their diseases and lives, how they dealt with their families and what their social and professional activities were in order to identify and analyze the social distress that they faced in their daily lives. This study is about the AIDS and madness social dimension emphasizing prejudice and stigma in society today. The research results show that the feeling of fear of death, other people s rejection and prejudice perception are in these patients daily lives. They also show that the subjects studied hide their diagnoses as a protection mechanism in relation to prejudice and discrimination