The perception of suicide as an inseparable way of violence according to young indigenous population

a study made with the Dourados Indigenous Reserve

Abstract

This essay is focused to study and analyze the consequences of attempted implementation, through the Sistema Único de Saúde-SUS (Health Unique System), of the mental health protocol - DC-10 – among the indigenous population. In this specific case, based on a qualitative research, applying a methodology of intercultural action/participation, this essay has been made in the Dourados Indigenous Reserva (Reserva Indigena de Dourados – RID), with the young people and their leaders into the Young Indigenous Population Actions - Ação dos Jovens Indígenas – AJI, acting as an informal school into the RID (Dourados Indigenous Reserva). The necessity of presenting the young indigenous people perception about their suffering, does not only brief a biomedical interpretation, but also the trauma effect they had and still have that we may define as colonial, post traumatic cultural illness. Whatever the name we use, they are young and already carry a silent pain which cannot be reduced as a biomedical hegemonic vision, which brings the necessity to measure how this vision may cause them traumatic experience. This situation is based on an interdisciplinary and polyphonic vision upon the phenomenology and for this reason it consists in a think/make condition.