Many people stay overweight in spite of the fact that they know they need to diet and exercise. Many people die of lung cancer from cigarette smoking in spite of their knowledge all along that smoking was bad for them. Many Tech students procrastinate until ninth week before they start cramming for finals, setting themselves up for failure in spite of their understanding of proper time management and study skills. We stuff down another Dove Bar rather than eat an orange. This is the meaning of having emotional problems that interfere with your solving your practical problems.
Behavioral problems accompany emotional problems.
In the same vein, watching Babylon 5 may be disturbed if watching it sabotages the studying you need to do in order to get the grade in diffy-Q that you want to get. It may not be disturbed if your study schedule includes watching the TV show as part of your entertainment time, or if you can study around the show and still be prepared for the diffy-Q exam that is coming up. Maintaining a loving relationship with your girlfriend calls for warm, affectionate, playful and sensitive behaviors. Calling her insulting names when you are angry, openly flirting with other women, not keeping your hygiene up or never engaging in romantic behaviors are all probably disturbed behaviors in that they probably will weaken or dissolve your girlfriends's affection for you instead of enhance or maintain it. What values, assumptions, strategies and past experiences do you draw on when reacting to a situation or in making a decision.