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Social-stress Disorder. What Does it Mean for the people?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 March 2020
Abstract
In 90th of 20 Russian psychiatrist Y.A. Alexandrovsky expressed opinion of presence the group of so-called social-stress disorders that was determined like psychogenic-actual for most people in definite social, economic and political situation.
Used the method of clinic-psychopathological interview with patients who applied outpatient psychological consultation on the chair of psychiatry.
The main changes in psychic state include following behaviors and clinical implications: loss of the value of human life, which is manifested in indifference to death in lowering caution when hazardous situations, willingness to sacrifice lives without any ideals. There is unrestrained lost for pleasure and moral promiscuity, exacerbation of personality typological traits, development of hyperstenic reactions (to self-destructive non-expedient behavior), hypostenic disorders, panic reactions, depression, dissociative and conversive irregularities, loss of communicational plasticity, loss of the ability to adapt to what happens with the preservation prospects of targeted actions, manifestations of cynicism, the tendency to antisocial actions. Patients had complaints on increase anxiety, pessimistic attitudes, existential vacuum, sense of uselessness and loss of perspectives, tendency to irrational perception of reality with including mechanisms of autistic and archaic thinking.
Thus, psychological status of the population of Ukraine is a model of social-stress disorder and can be considered like a basis, which leads to the decreasing of the individual barrier of mental adaptation with the next manifestation of different forms of psychological maladjustment.
The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.
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- European Psychiatry , Volume 33 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 24th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2016 , pp. S452 - S453
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- Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2016
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