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Why do people say, "Jealousy is contagious" or "jealousy is a disease"?
How can jealousy be contagious or a disease?
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I have never heard that. Of course, I am Grandma age so if you are younger, maybe it's something the younger generations say without really understanding jealousy or envy. Envy is often mistaken for jealousy too. So I can't say why you may have heard that. It could simply mean that friends talk among themselves, sharing how they feel and the coincidence of a friend recently feeling jealous and then yourself feeling jealous, one might think it is contagious. You know it isn't contagious nor a disease but it does have to do with a persons mental health as far as whether they have mostly healthy thoughts or suffer from negative and distorted thinking. What you see is distorted thinking. Jealousy is something internal where only the individual can fear a loss of something, like a job or someone like a boyfriend/girlfriend being stolen away. Therefore, if a friend is fearing losing a job, others can't catch that feeling like a disease because they are more likely to have other feelings about their job, being satisfied or happy with it. Envy is not fear of loss but wishing you have what some one else does.. . as in feeling envious of a friend whose parents are rich enough to get him/her a brand new car for their birthday.
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