Disorders
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Other disorders may
involve other attributes of human functioning. Eating practices can
be disordered, at least in relatively rich industrialized areas, with
either compulsive over-eating or under-eating or binging. Categories
of disorder in this area include Anorexia nervosa, Bulimia nervosa,
Exercise Bulimia or Binge eating disorder.
Sleep disorders such as Insomnia also exist and can disrupt normal sleep
patterns. Sexual and gender identity disorders, such as Dyspareunia
or Gender identity disorder or ego-dystonic homosexuality. People who
are abnormally unable to resist urges, or impulses, to perform acts
that could be harmful to themselves or others, may be classed as having
an impulse control disorder, including various kinds of Tic disorders
such as Tourette's Syndrome, and disorders such as Kleptomania (stealing)
or Pyromania (fire-setting). Substance-use disorders include Substance
abuse disorder. Addictive gambling may be classed as a disorder. Inability
to sufficiently adjust to life circumstances may be classed as an Adjustment
disorder.
The category of adjustment disorder is usually reserved for problems
beginning within three months of the event or situation and ending within
six months after the stressor stops or is eliminated. People who suffer
severe disturbances of their self-identity, memory and general awareness
of themselves and their surroundings may be classed as having a Dissociative
identity disorder, such as Depersonalization disorder or Dissociative
Identify Disorder itself (which has also been called multiple personality
disorder, or "split personality".). Factitious disorders,
such as Munchausen syndrome, also exist where symptoms are experienced
and/or reported for personal gain.
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