DISEASE EXPERIENCE AND STOCK OF KNOWLEDGE IN COPING WITH PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS

• Autor(a) principal: Muhl, Camila
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Phenomenology, Humanities and Sciences
• Texto Completo: https://phenomenology.com.br/index.php/phe/article/view/34
• topic: Transtorno Mental; Experiência; Enfrentamento; Psicopatologia; Sociologia Fenomenológica; Mental Disorder; Experience; Coping; Psychopathology; Phenomenological sociology; Transtorno Mental; Experiência; Enfrentamento; Psicopatologia; Sociologia Fenomenológica

With the accumulation of experiences gained from the world of everyday life, at all times, a stock of knowledge becomes available to each person, allowing him/her to operate on the world. All lived experiences are added to the stock of knowledge, which makes it exist as a continuous flow that changes according to the current experience. If we act referenced by a stock of knowledge in all experiences, we do so in the experience of falling ill: when one finds oneself in a situation of suffering, it is to this stock that one resorts to understanding, signifying and taking care of one’s illness. In this phenomenological investigation, we researched people diagnosed with mental disorders as how they coped with the disease. Twenty in-depth interviews were conducted with people of both sexes, aged 19 to 59 years and with different psychiatric diagnoses, who were in attendance at a Psychosocial Care Center in the metropolitan region of Curitiba, State of Paraná, Brazil. When mobilizing their previous experiences and stock of knowledge, we identified that the following strategies and protective factors were used in coping with the disease: self-observation, isolation, art, emotional bonds, organization/routine and leisure