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As Michel said more details would allow us to help more specifically.
I will say that jealousy will tear you up. I learned very early that it serves no purpose.
If you are jealous of a girlfriend/borfriend/lover then you most likely are always in a state of turmoil. It may be a trust issue. Sometimes people cause you to loose your trust in them. You have to decide to let it go. And mean what you say. But, if they are a repeat offender then you must decide what is more important in your life. Your happiness or continuing to live in a toxic realationship. If they are purposley trying to make you jealous. the same answer as above applies. If you are jealous for no reason.... then you most likely are returning to something that has happened in your past that made jealousy rear its head.
No matter what the reason is.... it really sucks. The feeling is very hurtful and destroys your reasoning. It literally makes you feel sick and may cause anxiety.
Remember this you can not control other people. You can only control yourself. If someone is causing the jealousy then try distancing yourself from them and or the situation. If you continue to feel those feelings then I would think counseling may help you learn to put it in its proper place in your life. If the jealousy goes away.... well I think you can agree... you have found the culprit, and it is gone. No one is worth loosing true self for. Be true to who you are.
Work at it like it is a habit. Jealousy does not come on its own. If it was just thoughts in your head, it would be fine. Odds are jealousy comes along with a ton of tiny habits. Calling someone repeatedly, or checking their phone, casually inquiring about where they've been while really trying to find out who they were with, etc. Now, every time you perform a behavior like that, you reduce your anxiety (after all, jealousy is extremely anxiety provoking). Which tells your brain several things. That a. there was something to be anxious about, b. you must continue this behavior in order to reduce the anxiety. However, just like any other sort of obsessive compulsive behavior, it gets worse. The jealousy, the anxiety, and the behaviors increase. So you deal with it like you would any other sort of OCD. You resist the impulse to act in the behavior. It is like a habit. If you really want to break it, it will take weeks and you will experience some anxiety while doing it. BUT. If you wait it out, the jealousy will die down on its own, the anxiety will disappear on its own, and the behaviors will no longer seem necessary. It's a simple matter of changing the reinforcement cycle (ok easier said than done). But at the end of the day, it is up to you. If you want to change, this is your chance.
If you get jealous because you see your bf talking with another girl, then I believe it is normal. There is a high sense of belonging in love relationship. Also feeling afraid of losing someone may drive up our jealousy. But if you get jealous with your friends because they have more things than you do, I believe you need to start learning the meaning or Acceptance. Everyone deserves what they get. Try to find the positive things in you, improve it then the time when you say that you are special will come. :)
well im not sure exactly what u can do everyone is different... my boyfriend has jealously toward my friends, because i hang out with guys, he gefs jealoua of the time that they get with me, and that it is more then thw time geta know? i knkw one thing that happened him was just me showing him how much he doesbmean to me.. maybe u should wxplain to ur boyfriend/girlfriend how u feel about it, and maybe things will get befter (srry for thr typos..) hope things wprk out hipe i helped..
You can't be jealous ALL the time...All I can say is eventually you gotta learn to live with it and try to find ways to lessen it for yourself. (Yes, I am kinda aware my answers at this time of night - almost 2am here right now - are probably not all that good, sorry...)
a few more details, perhaps??
