POSITIVE DIAGNOSIS FOR HIV AND THE REORGANIZATION OF LIFE

Abstract

This article is the result of a qualitative study that aimed to understand how the lives of people living with HIV (PLHIV) were reorganized after at least one year of living with the disease. For this, interviews were conducted with some generating questions preceded by characterization of the subjects. The methodology chosen for the organization of the data was Collective Subject Discourse (CSD), having psychoanalysis and scientific productions related to the theme as a theoretical reference. The result refers to a thematic axis named "Subjective experience and adaptation from the disease", which constituted three discourses of the collective subject (CSD), these were named by the central ideas (ICS): (1) resignification from the disease, (2) biopsychological repercussions of the diagnosis; and (3) silence with self-protection. It was concluded that there is not only one way to reorganize life from the diagnosis, but it is correct to state that the stigma of the disease has a direct influence on all subjects.