Português Suicide: The Family and the Psychological Impacts of the Bereaved

Abstract

The practice of suicide currently affects all social strata in all parts of the world, regardless of age, sex, color, race, ethnicity, creed, religion, social class or financial condition. There are many reasons why people commit suicide. When the act is consummated, the family members face a marathon of psychological suffering of all kinds, due to the pain of losing the loved one. The research was carried out through searches on PubMed, Scielo Brasil and Google Scholar websites with the descriptors suicide and psychological impacts in articles in Portuguese and English. Twenty-seven academic works with relevant information contained in this work were selected and works with a publication period of more than five years were excluded, except works that contained relevant and temporal information. The factors for committing suicide are noted within the family, usually after family members suffer from the loss of their loved ones and for various reasons. From then on, the feeling of loss, revolt, despair, anguish and anger is established among people, causing different emotions. In this way, this work aimed to analyze the issues inherent to the particularities that involve the suffering of the bereaved family, to seek understandings about the causes that lead people to commit suicide, in addition to emphasizing the role of the psychologist in promoting actions that can alleviate the suffering. of the family.