Quando a cura não se mostra alcançável: sentidos e significados da cronicidade em um diálogo entre portadores da SIDA/AIDS e esclerose múltipla

Abstract

Chronic diseases – treatable, but with no cure, of long term and from complex causes – already account for 60% of deaths globally, being the biggest health problem in Brazil, corresponding to 72% of causes of death, needing Psychology to be articulating new forms of knowledge that enable a better quality of life for people with this kind of disease. Therefore, this master’s degree project linked to the Post Graduation Program of the Federal University of Amazonas, had as a goal to understand, in the light of Phenomenological-Existential Psychology, the experience of chronic illnesses, creating a dialogue between senses created by people who live with HIV and AIDS and multiple sclerosis bearers. To this, a qualitative approach was used with a semi-structured interview that began from a guiding question that were later analyzed and categorized by the phenomenological research method. As a result, the following categories were obtained: “Discovering a chronic disease and rediscovering the being-in-the-world”, “The being-with mediated by the chronicity of a disease” and “My being that undid and redid itself”, which resulted in 12 other subcategories. The interviewed subjects brought as main experiences their suffering as they were diagnosed, the overcoming as they practiced the being-with and ressignification of chronically falling ill