Some features of psychopathological symptoms in patients with depressive disorders in modern stage

Abstract

The features of psychopathological symptoms of depressive disorders were studied taking into account age and gender factor. It has been established that modern depressive disorders are characterized by polymorphism of symptoms with the presence of pronounced anxiety, obsessive and somatic manifestations; the severity of the main psychopathological symptoms increases with age. Gender differences are in the greater severity of symptoms of depression, hostility and paranoid symptoms in men, and anxiety, somatization, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, interpersonal sensitivity and phobic anxiety in women. These features can be considered as manifestations of the clinical pathomorphosis of depression at the present stage.