Forced relocation due to hostilities provokes the development of adaptation disorders and increases the likelihood of the appearance of concomitant psychoemotional disorders in affected civilians. Understanding the peculiarities of the course of adaptation disorders in internally displaced persons and establishing its characteristics will help to increase the personalization of its treatment.

This work provides a comparative description of the peculiarities of psychoemotional disorders in internally displaced persons with adaptation disorders and persons with adaptation disorders who have not been affected by internal displacement. It was found that in internally displaced persons, adaptation disorder is accompanied by a clinically pronounced level of anxiety, a subclinical level of depression, a low quality of life and the absence of manifestations of alexithymia. In persons with adaptation disorder who were not affected by internal displacement, a subclinical level of anxiety, a clinically pronounced level of depression, a low quality of life and moderate manifestations of alexithymia were found. Despite a significantly higher level of quality of life, persons with adaptation disorders who were not affected by internal displacement demonstrated a higher level of depressive symptoms, which can be explained by the presence of manifestations of alexithymia, which causes the interpretation of heterogeneous low-intensity psychopathological symptoms as depressive.