Why are desires in The Five Hindrances only about "sensual" desires? The five hindrances consist of sensual desires. ill-will, sloth and torpor, restlessness and doubt. I have often wondered why the first hindrance are limited to sensual desires as this is leaving out the desires/attachment that one can have to other things, like desires for power/control, to be loved or approved of, to achieve, to feel secure. I have always wondered why these are not included as obstacles to spiritual freedom in the dhamma, as they are often much more in the foreground than sensual desires when trying to obtain concentration. Thoughts like "I should have done otherwise", "why did she say so to me", "I need to find a solution", "I must improve" are coming from such needs or attachments. I cannot understand why the first hindrance only talks about sensual desires when there are all these other desires?
It seems that the five hindrances are obstacles to the five factors to be developed in the first jhana. There are other hindrances but these five are important in the context of progress in meditation.

According to Access To Insight:


  Buddhaghosa states that the abandonment of the five hindrances alone
  is mentioned in connection with jhana because the hindrances are the
  direct enemies of the five jhana factors, which the latter must
  eliminate and abolish. To support his point the commentator cites a
  passage demonstrating a one-to-one correspondence between the jhana
  factors and the hindrances: one-pointedness is opposed to sensual
  desire, rapture to ill will, applied thought to sloth and torpor,
  happiness to restlessness and worry, and sustained thought to doubt
  (Vism. 141; PP.147). Thus each jhana factor is seen as having the
  specific task of eliminating a particular obstruction to the jhana and
  to correlate these obstructions with the five jhana factors they are
  collected into a scheme of five hindrances.


The Jhanas in Theravada Buddhist Meditation
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/gunaratana/wheel351.html#ch1