Depresión e ideas suicidas en pacientes con esclerosis múltiple en el área de neuroendocrinología de un hospital público de Guayaquil : importancia de la asistencia y seguimiento del psicólogo clínico.

Abstract

This research paper will address the subjective manifestations of patients with multiple sclerosis. In which, a bibliographic tour will be made in different aspects, among them is the psychoanalytic, medical and psychiatric point of view, about the manifestations that occur in patients diagnosed with this disease. At the same time, clarifications are made of what is conceived as the real of the disease. The importance of research is arise from pre-professional practices where it was possible to identify how patients respond from the real with depression, suicidal ideation, acting out and passages to the act to the poor medical prognosis. Significantly, the importance of the clinical psychologist and his intervention, assistance and accompaniment is raised. The research is of qualitative approach with descriptive method since interviews were carried out with professionals with clinical psychologists and patients with multiple sclerosis. It was obtained as a result that the most observed manifestations in these patients are depression and suicidal ideation and how the interventions of the Clinical Psychologist allowed patients with multiple sclerosis to reelaborate their person from their present diagnosis.