The modern world is a time of frequent stressful situations, competition between people and the development of various mental disorders. The structure of various neurological, mental illnesses includes neurotic disorders that determine borderline states.
Borderline status is the severity of a mental disorder, but relatively at a weak level, which does not reach the pathology. It is believed that the borderline is a state that is on the verge of health and disease. These include: obsessive conditions, asthenia or vegetative disorders.
The root causes of the disease include psychological conflicts that are experienced by the individual. One of the deeper causes is the genetic predisposition of a person to a similar mental illness.
The borderline state of the psyche is a set of disorders with a predominant neurotic level of behavioral disorders, human activities. A number of features that are observed with such changes are revealed:
- Preservation of the critical attitude of the individual to his own state.
- There is a painful change, often in the emotional personal sphere, which is accompanied by autonomic functional disorders.
- Psychological causes of mental disorders, but organic.
Diagnostics of boundary conditions
Boundary states in psychiatry so do not have clear boundaries in their manifestation, which is the difficulty of establishing a clear boundary between a healthy and borderline state of a person, since the norm of the mental level does not have any objective criteria.
Assess the state of a person, the presence of psychosomatic symptoms, you can track its interaction, adaptation to the environment. Any borderline mental states are assessed as a violation of adaptation to new and difficult for a person external, internal life circumstances. In some situations, this disorder causes various psychotic disorders (automatisms, hallucinations, etc.) or neurotic (emotional, etc.) disturbances in the mental activity of the individual.
Treatment of borderline states is done with the help of psychological help. But one psychological counseling is not capable of curing a patient. Also, experts do not recommend appointing him sessions of classical psychoanalysis, because the degree of anxiety in people with borderline conditions is very high.
It is worth noting that for the prevention of borderline states it is necessary to remember that one must protect one's physical and mental health and not allow all factors from outside to destroy it.