TALKING ABOUT SUICIDE: THE INTEGRATION EXPERIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH ACADEMIC CLUBS FROM UNIGRANRIO

Introduction and Objective: Mental Health Academic Clubs of Unigranrio from Rio de Janeiro and Duque de Caxias city did an integrated activity, on an afternoon of debates about prevention and suicide risk factors among medical students. The objective is to report the experience of integration of the mental health academic clubs in celebration to the Fight Against Suicide International Day. Methods: Reflective meeting and debate about suicide, focusing on risk factors, preventive measures and fight against the stigma, using artistic means of interaction. The opening occurred with a reading of letters from suicide people and poems about death and transience of life. Then, the clubs used audiovisual resources, with images related to the topic of death and students sang songs with lyrics related to suicide, the psychic suffering and demand the death idea as relief problems. After exploring artistic skills to work with emotions related to the topic, was open a reflective space about what was present and about the knowledge of the subject. Results and Conclusions: There was a difficulty in early expression at the debate, being questioned by members of the clubs the possibility of this reaction be connected to the representation of the feeling of impotence of the medical student facing the idea of death wish and suicide. It was also questioned the lack of papers about this topic inside the medical education, justifying the vulnerability of the student on this situation.