Acting Out Causes & Reasons

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Possible Causes

Substance Abuse Problems

This usually occurs from the substance wearing off, and it can cause them to act out against people close to them, according to the National Council of Alcoholism and Drug [bustle.com]

The typical acting out of adolescents can be confused with the effects of drug and alcohol use. [aafp.org]

People struggling with substance use act out against those closest to them. [ncadd.org]

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Adjustment Reaction of Adolescence

Adults may experience a more emotional reaction while children and adolescents often act out. [villagebh.com]

out Physical Symptoms : Muscle tension Idiopathic aches and pains Gastrointestinal problems – nausea, vomiting, diarrhea Headaches Changes in appetite and sleep patterns [ascentchs.com]

Since the anxiety, depression and acting out can disrupt their lives, as well as your family’s, treatment is preferable. [childrensneuropsych.com]

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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

The child acts out the scary event during playtime. The child unusually clings to a parent or other adults and avoids being left alone. [symptoma.com]

Traumatic play; re-enacting parts of the trauma in their play (drawings, acting out). Regressive behavior (thumb sucking, bed-wetting). [anxietybc.com]

[…] who witness the death or assault of a parent will later suffer PTSD Youth with PTSD may experience other problems as well, including depression, other anxiety problems, or acting-out [anxietybc.com]

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Parasomnia Type Sleepwalking

Nearly 1 in 10 patients with obstructive sleep apnoea also experience "parasomnia" symptoms such as sleepwalking, hallucinations and acting out their dreams, a Loyola University [health24.com]

out their dreams, a new study has found. [thefreelibrary.com]

Nearly 1 in 10 patients with obstructive sleep apnea also experience "parasomnia" symptoms such as sleepwalking, hallucinations and acting out their dreams, a Loyola University [sciencedaily.com]

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Childhood Depression

This is not to say that we are acting out of our scope. [massagetoday.com]

They are much more likely to express their depression by acting out and showing that they are angry. [blog.cognifit.com]

Besides feeling sad and hopeless, children with depression may also complain of frequent headaches or stomachaches, become irritable or act out. [discoveryranch.net]

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Attention Deficit Disorder

The problem causes them to act out and creates ADD-like symptoms that are very real. [hemi-sync.com]

The stereotype of kids with ADHD is that they’re always in motion, they’re impulsive and hyperactive, and that they act out at home and at school. [understood.org]

Children with the other two presentations of ADHD, for example, tend to act out or exhibit behavior problems in class. [verywellmind.com]

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Adjustment Disorder

The affected person may feel anxious or depressed and act out by vandalizing somebody’s property. [lucidatreatment.com]

Symptoms of Adjustment Disorder: Depressed mood, anxious, regularly acting out of the ordinary. May be experiencing sleep and sexual difficulties. [healthyplace.com]

Adjustment disorder with disturbance of conduct: This involves a change in behavior that involves acting out in some manner. [lucidatreatment.com]

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Parasomnia

out their dreams. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Nearly 1 in 10 patients with obstructive sleep apnea also experience "parasomnia" symptoms such as sleepwalking, hallucinations and acting out their dreams, a Loyola University [sciencedaily.com]

REM Behavior Disorder REM Behavior Disorder is the ability to act out your dreams. The obvious problem with acting out your dreams, is the potential to cause injury. [psychnet-uk.com]

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REM Sleep Behavior Disorder

In the midst of all this, Pandamiglio experiences dramatic episodes of acting out his dreams. [cnn.com]

A rare sleep disorder that makes people act out their dreams may be an early warning of a deadly neurological illness, a new review of previous research suggests. [yahoo.com]

RBD occurs when you act out vivid dreams as you sleep. These dreams are often filled with action. They may even be violent. Episodes tend to get worse over time. [yoursleep.aasmnet.org]

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Abuse and Neglect

Lashing out in anger. Abusive parents act out of anger and the desire to assert control, not the motivation to lovingly teach the child. [helpguide.org]

Briere 1986 Adolescent acting out and childhood history of sexual abuse. Journal of Interpersonal Violence 1:326-334. Runyan, D.K., and C.L. [nap.edu]

Examinations of the genitals or anus carried out under section 53 of the CYP&F Act may not be carried out under General Anaesthetic. [starship.org.nz]

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Sleep Paralysis

It is believed to be a result of disrupted REM sleep, which is normally characterized by a complete loss of muscle control that prevents individuals from acting out their [psychonautwiki.org]

It's in place so we don't act out our dreams. However, there are cases where that paralysis function fails and we do things in our sleep we don't remember. [bigthink.com]

It is assumed that this paralysis mechanism is in place to stop us acting out our dreams, based on rare cases where the paralysis fails – and patients physically act out the [iflscience.com]

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Sexual Abuse Victim

out Wanting to leave school These last five are more characteristic of teenagers and are becoming prevalent. [thelamplighters.org]

So when a family member began inappropriately touching and acting out against me when I was five, I honestly didn’t know at the time that it was wrong. [christianitytoday.com]

Sexual assault is an act that is carried out without the victim's active consent. This means they didn't agree to it. [nhs.uk]

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Behavior Disorder

They end up acting out their dreams. Some may walk, talk, scream, hit, or punch in their sleep. [alleydog.com]

Someone with REM behavior disorder is able to act out his dreams due to the loss of muscle atonia. [sleep.wustl.edu]

They had no idea that they were in fact still asleep and acting out a dream. [sleephabits.net]

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Overeating

Then, you can decide whether you really want to move ahead with that course of action, or recognize if you are simply acting out of habit and don’t actually want to do what [bornfitness.com]

Even the best of friends can become your diet enemy and act as saboteurs. [realbuzz.com]

According to the study, overeating can trigger the same feel-good neurotransmitters in the brain, increasing the chance that the act will become habitual. [sparkpeople.com]

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Common Cold

This fluid acts to dilute the virus and clear it from the nose. [britannica.com]

Once a virus becomes established on the respiratory surface of the nose, its activities irritate the nose’s cells, which respond by pouring out streams of clear fluid. [britannica.com]

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Urinary Tract Disease

The only benefit is that it might help flush out the infection. [express.co.uk]

Usually, the act of emptying the bladder (urinating) flushes the bacteria out of the urethra. If there are too many bacteria, urinating may not stop their spread. [medicinenet.com]

Dr Floyd said: “As well as acting as a preventive measure, drinking lots of fluids can help wash away the infected bacteria. [express.co.uk]

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Bronchitis

Pneumonia affects the air sacs in the lungs, while bronchitis affects the bronchial tubes, which act as a sort of tunnel to get air into and out of the lungs. [health.com]

Out of these, only mucolytic and expectorant drugs act directly on mucus properties or its secretion. [doi.org]

Short and long acting bronchodilators (beta-2 agonists) are effective in chronic bronchitis. [intechopen.com]

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Acute Bronchitis

The body creates a ton of thick mucous which can be sticky and difficult to expel, thereby creating a hard cough - your body's way of getting it out. [naha.org]

Out of these, only mucolytic and expectorant drugs act directly on mucus properties or its secretion. [doi.org]

Summary of main results This systematic review set out to investigate the relative effects of inhaled corticosteroids and long‐acting beta 2 ‐agonists on clinical endpoints [doi.org]

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Acute Alcohol Intoxication

You may act out violently. Risky sexual behavior: You have sex that is not protected, or you have sex with many people. [drugs.com]

The Volstead Act, which was designed to carry out the Prohibition (also known as “The Prohibition Act”), defined intoxicating beverage, and allowed an exemption for sacramental [torahlab.org]

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Vitamin D Deficiency

Most sunscreens filter out UVB light, thus inhibiting vitamin D production. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

The study suggests that maintaining vitamin D levels could act as a protective factor against cancer, a notion that has been investigated in past research. [medicaldaily.com]

The main problem in India is that air pollution levels are so high that it filters out the useful UVB rays which impacts the production of vitamin D. [thehealthsite.com]

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Upper Respiratory Infection

[…] of the way: Firing rockets at civilians with the intent to maim and kill is not an act... [jewishjournal.com]

Clostridium difficile Infections on the Increase ” target ”_blank” Untreatable Gonorrhea – The Next Infectious Threat JJ Inside The Print It’s important to get one thing out [jewishjournal.com]

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Nymphomania

This is an 'accident,' but it is also a symbolic acting out of an affectionate embrace. [bad.eserver.org]

Causes often involve one or more of the following: acting out; atypical psychoses; alcohol and/or drug abuse; temporal lobe disorders; involvement with an inappropriate partner [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

In the case of nymphomania, people act out their compulsions by engaging in risky behaviors such as promiscuity. [healthgrades.com]

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Urinary Tract Infection

The bladder and ureters prevent urine from backing up, while the simple act of urinating is supposed to flush bacteria out of your system. [plushcare.com]

Usually, the act of emptying the bladder (urinating) flushes the bacteria out of the urethra. If there are too many bacteria, urinating may not stop their spread. [medicinenet.com]

The points where the ureters attach to the bladder act like one-way valves to prevent urine from backing up toward the kidneys, and urination washes microbes out of the body [web.archive.org]

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Vaginitis

After getting over the inital 'act... Returned to the Joiners tonight to open the show for American rockers - The Early November. [curbwireband.com]

Spent today filming the video for Geraldine - the lead track from our forthcoming debut EP Battle Scars, released on 17th April 2017 We ventured out to Hilsea Lines to shoot [curbwireband.com]

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Dementia with Lewy Bodies

People with LBD also often act out their dreams and make violent movements when they’re asleep. It’s called REM sleep behavior disorder. [webmd.com]

REM sleep behavior disorder, a condition in which a person seems to act out dreams. [malacards.org]

This causes vivid dreams, meaning someone may call out and act out their dreams in their sleep. [bupa.co.uk]

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Insect Bite

Acting confused. The child may not know where he or she is. [cigna.com]

Symptoms of shock in a child may include: Passing out (losing consciousness). Being very sleepy or hard to wake up. Not responding when being touched or talked to. [cigna.com]

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Vaginal Candidiasis

However, there is a careful balancing act constantly happening within your body and when it tilts one way or another, you may become sick. [my.clevelandclinic.org]

There are several conditions you can develop when candida goes out of balance. If you develop a lot of the fungus in your mouth, it’s called thrush. [my.clevelandclinic.org]

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Constipation

The very act of working out shakes your GI tract—a good thing when it comes to beating constipation. [yahoo.com]

The citric acid in lemon juice acts as a stimulant for your digestive system, and can also help flush out toxins and undigested material that may have built up along the walls [everydayroots.com]

Freshen up from the inside out Ah the scent of a fresh lemon…did you ever think your stomach might appreciate it as much as your nose? [everydayroots.com]

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Acute Cystitis

The points where the ureters attach to the bladder act like one-way valves to prevent urine from backing up toward the kidneys, and urination washes microbes out of the body [web.archive.org]

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Sexual Sadism

Ideally, the term should be used only for persons in whom such fantasies are acted out in actual behavior. Almost all such persons will be men. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Symptoms and Dangers of Sexual Sadism Some people never go beyond the fantasizing stage, but others may act out their fantasies on willing or unwilling partners. [gomentor.com]

[…] more harmful ways of acting out. [minddisorders.com]

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