CORPORITY OF PEOPLE WITH FIBROMYALGIA IN THE LIGHT OF THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF PERCEPTION
Nursing; Fibromyalgia; Perception; Qualitative research; Everyday activities.
Fibromyalgia is a complex and systemic, idiopathic syndrome, characterized by the presence of diffuse and chronic musculoskeletal and joint pain, hyperalgesia, associated with other symptoms. This study has as object of study: the perception of people with fibromyalgia about their corporeity. It was guided by the guiding question: How do people with fibromyalgia perceive their corporeality? And it aimed to: understand the perception of people with fibromyalgia about their corporeity. A qualitative study was chosen, with an approach of the phenomenology of perception, anchored in the theoretical-philosophical support of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. From October 2022 to January 2023, phenomenological interviews were carried out, using an instrument with a semi-structured script, 15 people with fibromyalgia for at least three months, living in Maceió-AL, participated. After transcribing and analyzing the interviews, the results were explained in four ontological categories: corporeality permeated by pain; corporeity impacted by the stigmatization of fibromyalgia; corporeality misunderstood in the professional context; and fragile corporeality in social life. After the phenomenological analysis, it was possible to understand the perception of people with FM about their corporeality, which is effectively shown by the body as the first condition of the Being, and, therefore, it is through this that people with FM become aware of their way of being in the world. And, in it, they manifest themselves with their existence permeated by pain, by the stigmatization of FM, by misunderstanding in the professional context and weakened in social life, by having their corporeality affected by FM.