This qualitative study aimed to address the care given to professionals who work at health care units, particularly the impacts, meanings and relationships at work, in addition to vulnerability to stress at work. The survey was conducted in the city of Santa Maria, state of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), with a sample of 14 participants from five health care units. The data were collected through interviews, observations and testing, and, subsequently, analyzed using content analysis. As a result, at times the work appears to be structuring, i.e., a key operator in the constitution of the subject, while at others deconstructive, able to destabilize one's identity and personality and cause mental illness. The motivations, the relationship with the community, and the dialog in labor relations, as well as the need for actions with the health professionals, from the perspective of caring for the caregivers' health, were perceived as fundamental in the relationship between mental health and work.
subjectivity; health; work; education
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