From the author: Very often people, not understanding what is happening to them, experience the fear of going crazy. This is due to symptoms that seem unusual in neuroses. A neurotic disorder, in the usual sense, is simply irritability or a bad mood. Very often, people, not understanding what is happening to them, experience the fear of going crazy. This is due to symptoms that seem unusual in neuroses. A neurotic disorder, in the usual understanding, is simply irritability or a bad mood. When a person is faced with such phenomena as insomnia, acute attacks of unrelated anxiety, obsessive thoughts that seem terrible, attacks of shortness of breath and much more, everything else is added fear of going crazy. This is often facilitated by close relatives or friends, who, also, not realizing what is happening and not taking the disorder seriously, can joke “the roof has gone crazy,” “it’s time to go to a mental hospital.” Such misunderstanding further aggravates the condition. Why is fear unfounded? Conventionally, in psychiatry there are two levels of disorders: Neurotic Psychotic Each of these levels includes a number of diseases. The neurotic level includes: post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety-phobic state, neurasthenia, obsessive-compulsive disorders, panic attacks, personality disorder, etc. The psychotic level: schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder, organic psychoses, dementia, etc. I will list the symptoms of neurotic disorders, which are often forgotten: mood swings, anxiety, asthenia, overvalued ideas, unpleasant, painful sensations in the internal organs and on the surface of the body, anxiety about the possibility of contracting any diseases, obsessive thoughts and actions, behavior deviating from generally accepted norms. Of course, people with psychotic-level disorders also suffer from neuroses, but in these cases, the symptoms of the underlying disease come to the fore, such as delusions, hallucinations, intellectual impairment, and severe mood disorders. For each disease there is a certain limit level that can be reached throughout the patient’s life. Thus, with neuroses, the disease never goes beyond the scope of neurotic disorders. This is a proven fact. Outcomes for neurotic disorders: Recovery Neurotic personality development (the constant existence of symptoms) There is no third option. Neurosis will never turn into psychosis, it can only provoke the development of a pre-existing disease. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to write in the comments. Literature used: Psychiatry and Narcology. Textbook for universities. N.N. Ivanets, Yu.G. Tyulpin, V.V. Chirko, M.A. Kinkulkina.