title: Obsessional jealousy
text: # Obsessional jealousy
  
  Obsessional jealousy is jealousy that is characterized by intrusive and excessive thoughts, and may be accompanied by compulsive checking of the partner. It is not classified as a mental disorder in the psychiatric manuals DSM or ICD, but it is mentioned as an example of how obsessive compulsive disorder can present itself.
  
  ## Presentation
  
  Its characteristics are:
  
  * Little resistance and distress associated with obsessional thoughts
  * Anger specifically directed at spouse
  * Jealousy evident only in a committed relationship
  * Frequently monosymptomatic
  * Frequently responds at lower doses of SSRI
  * Rapid response in comparison with classical OCD
  