Behavioural Problems associated with Physiological and Physical Disturbances
Eating disorders
These can be mainly categorized into two conditions:
- Anorexia Nervosa is characterized by under nutrition where body weight is maintained by 15% below the average weight by adhering to behaviours like restricted dietary choice, excessive exercise and alterations in body composition, induced vomiting and purgation and the consequent electrolyte disturbances.
- Bulimia Nervosa is characterized by repeated bouts of overeating and an excessive preoccupation with the control of body weight, leading the patient to adopt extreme measures so as to decrease the "fattening" effects of ingested food. (bulimic patients often experience depressive symptoms also).
Nonorganic sleep disorders
These conditions are psychogenic in nature in which the predominant disturbance is in the amount, quality, or timing of sleep due to emotional causes, insomnia, hypersomnia, disorder of the sleep-wake schedule, Sleepwalking, Sleep terrors [night terrors], Nightmares.
Some of the symptoms are feeling tense, anxious, worried, or depressed at bedtime, and as though their thoughts are racing. Hypersomnia is defined as a condition of either excessive daytime sleepiness and sleep attacks.
Sexual dysfunction
Sexual dysfunction occurs in various ways in which an individual is unable to participate in a sexual relationship as he or she would wish. There may be lack of interest, lack of enjoyment, failure of the physiological responses necessary for effective sexual interaction (e.g. erection), or inability to control or experience orgasm.
Some of the conditions can be:
- Lack or loss of sexual desire
- Sexual aversion and lack of sexual enjoyment
- Failure of genital response
- Orgasmic dysfunction
- Premature ejaculation
- Nonorganic vaginismus
- Nonorganic dyspareunia
- Excessive sexual drive
- Other sexual dysfunction.
Puerperium or Postpartum disorder
A six weeks sensitive period post delivery which may cause some imbalance in the females leading to Depression or Psychosis.