![]() Instead of being in control and involved in one's life, the adjustments formulated to suit a person’s advanced age involve the ability to give up control, to be able to accept a certain measure of dependency upon others, and to cut oneself off from annoying and tension-causing social contacts. In fact, an oldest-old person develops a self-concept that is different from the one he had during his younger old age. Johnson & Barer 5 found that the oldest-old tend to have different interpretations of their problems, and the connotations that they attribute to the various events are what enables them to feel that they control their own lives. Losing these functions may be hard blow to basic human pride and particularly to an old person’s right to live as he or she would wish. To some extent, more than half of those aged 90 suffer from dementia and from a gradual loss of critical qualities of life such as remaining autonomous, functionally independent, retaining their personal identity, social contacts, the ability to carry out their plans, etc. This change is a product of aging-related reduction in the scope of physical, cognitive and motivational reserve capacity. 1, 2 Baltes and Baltes, 3 Baltes & Smith 4 suggest that the oldest-old experience a negative change in the balance of gains and losses. A healthcare professional will be able to do a complete evaluation in order to determine the causes and thus point out the best treatment.The oldest-old or the old-old population relates to those who are 85 or over. In some cases, a therapy that includes both members of the couple can offer great benefits. To get help with pathological jealousy, it is essential to contact a psychologist, a psychiatrist, or even a sexologist. In short, jealousy blossoms when the person is feeling insecure, not feeling loved, and has an intense desire to be in a position of control. It is also common in alcoholics and people who suffer from sexual dysfunction. Pathological jealousy is found in cases of schizophrenia, neurosis, bipolar disorder, and in patients with damage to the right frontal lobe. Unfortunately, most cases of pathological jealousy are not so simple. In these cases, treatment of pathological jealousy involving simply reducing the dose of the medicine or overcoming the addiction has been very successful. Although this is not very frequent, pathological jealousy has been observed as a side effect caused by the medicine that patients with this illness take to stimulate dopamine production.Ĭocaine, methamphetamine, or other drugs that produce a sudden increase in dopamine can produce a similar effect. Tom Valeo, in his article When a Drug Leads to Suspicions of Infidelity, he mentions that he has seen cases of pathological jealousy in various patients who suffer from Parkinson’s Disease. This generally happens to people with paranoid personalities, or sometimes it is accompanied by some other psychosis or disorder, for example, obsessive compulsive disorder. It is also common for pathologically jealous people to try to hurt themselves. In the most chronic of cases, the pathologically jealous partner goes to the extreme of becoming violent with their partner and/or the supposed lover. Pathologically jealous people frequently focus on insignificant events to accuse their partner of unfaithfulness and they are not willing to change their point of view when they are shown logical proof that they were wrong. ![]() Unlike normal jealousy, pathological jealousy can last for years. Pathological jealousy can show up both in men and in women however, it is more common and more dangerous in the case of men. A person suffering from pathological jealousy believes they are their partner’s master and they are obsessed with watching over, following, and trying to “trap” their partner in the act. A pathologically jealous person hangs on to the delirious idea that their partner is being unfaithful to them without caring if there is any evidence to support this conclusion. Most cases of pathological jealousy are seen between husband and wife or romantic partners. “Jealousy is the most extreme expression of our own insecurity.” How can we know if what we have is pathological jealousy?
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