O Núcleo de saúde mental T-3 como lugar de apoio em saúde mental: experiência vivida em situação de doença mental

Abstract

This work results from research that addresses Mental Health and Illness, using the ethnographic method, among the members of the “T-3 Mental Health Center”, located in Neighborhood T-3, Infulene District, Matola City. The interpretations presented here result from ongoing conversations with members of the “T-3 Mental Health Center.” In it I defend the importance of looking at how people interpret illnesses, in order to understand the processes they choose or adopt to deal with them. Look demonstrate that people's experiences of a particular illness or disease an episode of illness can have a significant influence on how they cope with the same. This proves that issues of Health or Disease are not limited to the field of biomedicine, because before being approached by biomedicine, they go through a cultural judgment, with culture being the foundation of anthropological studies(TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)