This paper addresses complex and challenging relations suffering´s manifestations of workers and health surveillance practices. It is a theoretical essay whose objective is to perform a critical analysis about challenges and dilemmas related to mental health integration in worker´s health surveillance in the Brazilian health system. We realize that some practices from public health services has pathologized workers and, therefore, based on theoretical premises from authors like Agamben, Guattari, Szasz e Rorty, we discuss conceptual and practice dilemmas, technical and ethical dilemmas of mental disorders related to word diagnosis. We also highlight risks and dangers from hegemonic tendency focused on epidemiological and biomedical approach to deal with worker's suffering manifestations. Finally, we point out alternatives to the development of strategies to break with pathologizing devices of worker´s sufferings.
mental health; suffering; subjectivity; surveillance, medicalization