What´s Othello Syndrome Or Jealousy?

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Othello Syndrome is morbid or delusional jealousy. It is a mental illness where people believe their partner is being unfaithful without any actual proof. This disease makes people obsessive and delusional with false beliefs based on incorrect inferences about external realities. Jealousy is caused by greed and personal perspective which can result in psychological, emotional and even physical effects.
It is human nature to feel jealous but it can never take over humans lives, for this emotion can manipulate people in the worst of ways. Greed is what someone wants or wants to control whether materialistic or not. Trying to control someone will just cause them to push further away. An individual's perspective on what's important to them or

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