Esposas de alcoolistas: relações familiares e saúde mental

Abstract

Alcohol use represents a serious public health problem and is a disease that can devastate and destroy everyone around you, especially the family and the alcoholic himself. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impacts of alcoholism on family relationships. The general objective of this study was to analyze how alcoholism affects the mental health of the wives of alcoholics in the city of Cruz das Almas-BA. The work is a "patchwork" of my career, but it intersects with other realities experienced by many women. We used as a methodological approach the qualitative perspective, aiming to know the trajectories of the wives of alcoholics, being collected information through semi-structured interviews. The choice of interviewees was made through information collected on the Internet, indications of some interviewees and also visits to the group of Alcoholics Anonymous in the city of Cruz das Almas-Bahia. We came to the following results: All interviewees stated that physical, moral, psychological, sexual and verbal aggression became constant when the spouses were under alcohol. Regarding the violence suffered by women are diverse, the most obvious is the physical, but it is no longer painful in the sense of the interviewees, the verbal expressed by name-calling, which degrade the image, their self-esteem, sometimes has more damaging psychological consequences. they. Violence is not only private. At times, in the women's reports, the neighbors witnessed, some helped, others were just bystanders. There is a prevalence in the interviewees' statements of the impact on their mental health. Most reported feeling fear, sadness, insomnia and other elements that cause damage to their mental health.