Are you being respectful?

Virtue ethics is person rather than action based: it looks at the virtue or moral character of the person carrying out an action, rather than at ethical duties and rules, or the consequences of particular actions. A good person is someone who lives virtuously – who possesses and lives the virtues.

In a toxic friendship, you never feel that support or compassion. You feel minimized when they brush off your problems or ignored outright if they never respond to your messages or requests for help. In short, they aren’t there for you when you need a friend most.

1. DO: ignore mean texts from your friend.
2. DO: avoid or reduce contact with someone who isn’t treating you well.
3. DO: talk about friendship issues with other friends, if you need to get another opinion.
4. DO: stand up to someone who isn’t treating you well.

Delusional jealousy in patients with dementia may signal dementia with Lewy bodies disease, according a team of neuropsychiatrists. Delusional jealousy is an organic psychotic syndrome characterized by a pathologic belief in the infidelity of one’s spouse or partner.

Solution 2: TRUST. Jealousy comes out of a lack of trust; lack of trust in the process of life, in your partner, in yourself. Lack of trust breeds insecurity, which creates jealousy; we stifle these feelings because they are uncomfortable.

Various treatments have been tried for this condition including phenothiazines [4], behaviour therapy [5], individual psychotherapy and family therapy [6], with limited success. Successful treatment of pathological jealousy by pimozide was first reported by Dorian [9].

Although an individual may present with morbid jealousy, the underlying psychiatric problems may show major illnesses like bipolar mania in up to 15% and schizophrenia 20%, among other diagnoses like depression and alcohol-related disorders. Morbid jealousy may not only be delusional, but also obsessional in nature.