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Jealousy: a community study
ABSTRACT
This study represents the first attempt to study sexual jealousy in a random community sample. Jealousy was reported by all subjects. ... Behaviours such as searching the partners belongings or inspecting their clothes for signs of sexual activity correlated with unusually intense jealousy. Men tended to cope with jealousy by using denial and avoidance, whereas women were more likely to express their distress and to try to make themselves more attractive to their erring partner. Greater jealousy concerns were expressed by young men who had either married early or were now living without a partner. Heavy drinkers and those reporting more psychiatric symptoms were also more prone to jealousy. A clear correlation emerged between lowered self-esteem and increased jealousy, which was particularly marked in women, for whom robust self-esteem was virtually incompatible with high jealousy concerns. ... This study offers a starting point for the clinician seeking information about the experience of jealousy in the community.
Serotonin reuptake blockers for
the treatment of obsessional jealousy
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: Some patients with pathological jealousy have a predominant obsessional component to their jealous thoughts. Since obsessions and compulsions often respond to serotonin reuptake blockers, these agents may also be useful for obsessional jealousy. METHOD: We undertook a retrospective study of patients who presented with obsessional jealousy. ... CONCLUSION: Obsessional jealousy has phenomenological similarities to other obsessions and compulsions, and obsessional jealousy may also respond to standard antiobsessional
The benefits of jealousy
Why in the world should a man in good standing and in full possession of intellectual capacities select to be jealous? ... If they could package jealousy in pills as an erection aide, it would outsell Viagra. ...
Like with any strong medicine, the problem with jealousy is the side effects. ...
Jealousy has to be managed if one wants to enjoy the better parts of it. ... As jealousy is not so much a subject of popular science as are, for example, the requirements for a woman to reach a climax, a large number of people are hit by it without being able to analyze it.
As a matter of fact, jealousy is not difficult to understand. ...
For sexual jealousy to occur in a man, something sexual that the first man desires has to be given to another man, or at least thats what he feels. ...
In my opinion, there are two kinds of love, one that follows the mechanisms of jealousy, and one that follows the mechanisms of best friendship. ...
However, while easier to install in the first place, the kind of love that is based on jealousy is much more difficult to maintain than the one based on friendship, though not all love based on jealousy is exactly the same. ... Gee, Ive had the best sex in my life when I ate my heart out because of jealousy. ...
Genuine jealousy always works. ... )
If Im capable to manipulate myself into it, can I also manage to get myself out of this mess called jealousy? ... The one is to turn love into hate, and the other is rather homeopathic: combat the jealousy for her with some jealousy for somebody else.
I dare to say that jealousy without hate makes a fine love. You can install jealousy without hate in a woman, and you can install it in yourself if you follow a simple rule. The simple rule is that it must be jealousy without reason to feel wronged. ...
But it is possible to install jealousy in a person without giving him or her the easy way out by finding a reason to hate. The key is that jealousy is installed not in a manner that makes the jealous person feeling wronged. ... ) If then, the man talks about previous relationships, thus installing a degree of jealousy in his partner, she will have a hard time feeling wronged.
Approximate Word count = 3105
Approximate Pages = 12.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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