NON-PSYCHOTIC MENTAL DISORDERS OF THE PERIOD OF FIGHTING IN THE DONBASS: CLINICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF HOSPITALIZATIONS
To evaluate the clinical and psychological characteristics of non-psychotic mental disorders during combat operations in the Donbass we have analyzed 26 cases of hospitalization of patients with this pathology in June-August 2015 in RCPH-MPC in Donetsk. The prevalence of psychogenic depression and anxiety was established in the examined patients. Approximately one third of patients in the first year of the war first started treatment permanently due to the presence of non-psychotic mental disorders, and in some cases hospitalizations were repeated. More than in the half of the cases it was noted the connection of the disease occurrence (aggravation) with the military actions. At the same time, post-traumatic stress disorder is not detected, and adjustment disorders diagnosed in only about one-tenth of the patients, which may be attributed to the transformation of these disorders in the neurotic disorders, in the first place - mixed anxiety and depressive (about one third of patients) disorder, during the conduct of hostilities. The pathopsyhological study of memory and attention found their violation, which can be explained by the presence of both psychoorganic and anxiety and depressive symptoms. When comparing the data with descriptions of non-psychotic mental disorders among residents of the Chechen Republic and other regions where military actions took place, both similarities and differences were revealed. (The Journal of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology. - 2016. - № 2 (36). - P. 12-18).