[Structure of borderline depressive conditions].

Overall 502 workers of a scientific-industrial association were examined in order to study the prevalence and structure of affective disorders. Anxiety appeared the most frequently occurring disorder (289 subjects); depression was revealed in 175, and elements of apathy in 94 persons. In 131 cases, the conditions was assessed as depressive, with the level of depression being subclinical in the majority of them. The structure of depressive disorders, their relation to the demographic characteristics of the examined are considered in detail. The necessity of more active identification and prevention of the " pre-nosological " forms of depression is discussed.