Treatment of jealousy

The first step is that the person stops denying jealousy and starts dealing with it. There are several ways in which jealousy can be treated.

Self-treatment

It is proven that one of the biggest mistakes that jealous person can make is to try and hide it. It is important to figure out that jealousy is usually a signal that something in the life of this person needs to be fixed. Ignoring usually only makes things worse. Jealous persons should ask themselves the following questions:

• What do I feel insecure about?
• Do I feel unattractive or uninteresting myself?
• Do I doubt the other persons love for me?
• Do I doubt that I can have the type of relationship I want?

Once a person figures out what the reason of discomfort is, they should ask themselves if these fears are well-founded. If the person is really sure that fears are unwarranted, but they feel insecure anyhow, they should try to change in order to avoid the situations which cause their insecurity in the future!

Sometimes jealous feelings can be triggered because we have unspoken expectations from our partner that aren't met. In such cases it may be helpful to ask the partner how they feel about it and, by clarifying the partners intentions, ending up feeling disappointed and hurt will be less likely. There is a lot of hope in being able to change ourselves, whether we are working on our personal defects of character, or we just need to change our attitude.

Some useful tips are:

Learn from past experiences.
It is important to look at how your behavior affected the past relationships. You may soon discover that these frequent suspicions are the cause of your troubled love life.
You should realize that getting upset with your partner for no reason won't help your situation.

Deal with reality
Focusing on what is really happening, not what you perceive to be happening is crucial. This is because with time, person may end up having difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction.

Respect yourself
The partner chose you for a reason and there is no need for them to be so easily tempted elsewhere. 

Get a third party's opinion
It might be useful to ask a good friend to take note of your behavior around your partner. It may help you to fully understand the extent of your actions. Neutral perspective is the most objective criteria.

Psychiatric therapy

Therapy can be another good way of dealing with unfounded internal fears. Unfortunately, there is often a stigma attached to therapy but you need to know that visiting a therapist doesn’t mean that you are crazy.

Medications

Some patients with pathological jealousy have a predominant obsessional component to their jealous thoughts. Since obsessions and compulsions often respond to medications called serotonin reuptake blockers, these drugs may also be useful for obsessional jealousy. It is proven that obsessional jealousy has phenomenological similarities to other obsessions and compulsions, and therefore jealousy may respond to standard anti-obsessional medications.