Introduction:

Workers who present different deficiencies in their body structures and functions must go through different processes to maintain a productive activity. People with work-related mental disorders are no exception and tend to have more difficulty being included.

Objective:

To describe the experience of a worker with a work-related mental disorder during the professional rehabilitation process in Colombia.

Material and Methods:

Qualitative phenomenological study with an interpretive approach. Data collection was carried out in 2020 through a semi-structured interview and subsequent analysis by categories, themes and patterns.

Results:

The experience of workers with mental disorders is closely linked or determined by access to timely services. The professional rehabilitation process is constituted as a protector of the work role; however, support networks can drastically influence.

Conclusions:

The professional rehabilitation process is decisive in the cases of workers with work-related mental disorders since it provides the necessary tools to strengthen and provides strategies that allow the worker to maintain their work role.

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