Mental health and teaching: guidance from life testimonies

Abstract

This work seeks to present the appreciations of some teachers who have suffered mental disorders of various kinds, directly or indirectly linked to their pedagogical work, as well as some reflections regarding the situation they are going through, and the lessons they have been able to extract from this experience. of life.

The experiences that intersect in this work were shared by teachers who are linked to the program called "day hospital", a space in which they receive psychotherapeutic help in order to guarantee their adequate reintegration into their social and family environment; in which they learn to appreciate the possibility of interacting with other people who have disorders similar to their own, and to immensely value the opportunity to listen, to be listened to, to seek in the company of others the meaning of their experience and to understand, through from his own experience, the suffering of his colleagues, finally, "who lives it is who understands it."

Through the analysis of these testimonies, it is also intended to demonstrate the importance of orality within the therapeutic process, and the relevance of this class of sources when undertaking a rigorous study of this problem, which affects more teachers every day in our country