Borderline States

Borderline conditions

Borderline states are a group of mental illnesses that include psychopathy, neuroses, and some forms of reactive states.

Borderline conditions include disorders of personality and human behavior that are on the border between normal and pathological. These conditions are characterized by emotional instability, impulsivity, anxiety and disturbances in social adaptation.

Main types of borderline states:

1. Psychopathy is a personality disorder manifested in antisocial, aggressive or auto-aggressive behavior.

2. Neuroses are disorders associated with internal emotional conflict and accompanied by anxiety, phobias, and obsessions.

3. Reactive states are short-term adaptation disorders that arise as a reaction to stress.

Borderline states occupy an intermediate position between mental health and overt mental illness. Their diagnosis and treatment require the attention of psychiatrists and psychotherapists. With timely treatment, the prognosis for such patients can be generally favorable.

Borderline states are a group of mental illnesses that combine diseases such as alcoholism, drug addiction, various addictions, and mental disorders. Borderline disorders occur in individuals who experience frequent emotional or behavioral changes in their lives or surrounding situations. It is also worth noting that these patients tend to experience deep depression, panic attacks and aggression, while experiencing mental pain.

Borderline syndrome can be considered as an intermediate state between mental illnesses of an endogenous nature (psychopathy) and neurotic or somatoform disorders among normal reactions to life’s stressful situations. In rare cases, this condition can lead to affective and even schizophrenic disorders and begin to seriously threaten human health. Borderline neuropsychic pathology is expressed precisely in the disorganization of thinking and behavior, the development of emotional and historical