POVERTY AS A PREDISPOSING ELEMENT FOR MENTAL ILLNESS: A REPORT OF EXPERIENCE IN FAMILY HEALTH

Abstract

Objective: To reflect on poverty and its relationship with the mental illness of users in Primary Care, through an experience report. Experience report: This is the experience of Social Work residents, part of the Integrated Multiprofessional Residency Program in Family Health, within the scope of Primary Care. During the two years of residency, several demands were placed in the scope of Social Work, the mental illness of users resulting from social factors and territorial vulnerabilities, being the most recurrent among them. The violations of rights experienced in the daily life of the working class are embodied in anxiety, stress, depression, eating disorders, insomnia, social phobia, self-mutilation, among others. Final considerations: It was perceived that poverty is configured as a predisposing element for mental illness in the living conditions of the working class. It is necessary, therefore, to think about mental health from the perspective of the social determinants of health, in order to evaluate not only the biological factors, but, above all, the social, environmental and economic factors that act as predisposing elements for illness.