Experience of people with Psoriasis versicolor

senses and meanings in the speeches

Abstract

Psoriasis is a common chronic inflammatory and autoimmune disease, affecting 2 to 3% of the world's population, and all its mechanisms are still not fully understood. It is characterized by reddish and scaly lesions. Emotional is an important aspect and directly influences the treatment and improvement of injuries. It is classified as a chronic disease because there is no definitive cure, the possible interventions lead to achieving total remission and the expectation of prolonging the time between one episodic incidence and another. Reflecting on this, this research proposes to understand the experience of people living with versicolor psoriasis, seeking to learn about how to live with the disease from the diagnosis and how it affects relationships with themselves and with other people, analyzing the speeches to light of phenomenology. The research universe is composed of eight people over eighteen years of age, with data being obtained from a phenomenological interview, starting from a guiding question that presented consequences. The analysis is based on the theoretical body of Phenomenological-Existential Psychology. As results, the following categories were obtained: “Being-in-the-world and facticity: the weight of carrying a stigma”, “Being-with-the-other: what the exchange of glances with you and the other has to say” , “Living with a whirlwind of feelings: the anguish of being psoriatic” and its subcategories. It is hoped, from the results, to contribute to the psychological follow-up of people with this disease, helping to reveal the psoriatic way of being. It is concluded that the psychological dimension of a diagnosis of this magnitude is to throw this other one through a true tangle of feelings and emotions with which they often cannot deal and psychology has a lot to contribute