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THE CHIEF Psychiatrist, Dr. Akwasi Osei has said women who are extremely jealous in marriage are the lazy ones who think they cannot compete with other women in winning the heart of their loved ones. According to him, any suspicion to lose the man can trigger depression and other brain related challenges which may end them up in psychiatric hospitals. The psychiatric doctor who was speaking in an interview with Nana Ampadu Kyere, the anchor of Marima Mfa Adwene, a social programme on Asempa FM, an Accra based radio station, reserved for men, said women who are in relationship and do not believe in themselves, tend to be jealous and love conflict. According to Dr. Osei, normally some women suspect and contemplate that their partners or would be partners are cheating on them and may lose them to their rivals, so they keep thinking and develop depression which may need clinical attention to correct. �Women who are always jealous see themselves as inferior to the their female competitors who are on the verge of winning the hearts of their loved ones on factors such as beauty, wealth, respect, good manners , social, hospitality, serviceable, sexually inactive, unfriendliness among others, which are the key factors in keeping a man,� he added. �Some of the women rely on their beauty and nothing else, without thinking that relationship goes beyond stature and beauty.� Again, some of the women�s love exceeds their partners and anytime such women are rejected by their spouses or loved ones they feel that is the end of life and depression sets in and leads to mentally related challenges that may take a long time to correct. Whenever it becomes very serious the doctors adopt healing method called family therapy which may require the man who has been at the centre of the rivalry to assist the doctor, �but on several occasions the men refuse to come and some patients get healed through special counseling to sensitize the person to understand that life must go on even with or without that man in question.� The doctor also explained that patients are made to believe in themselves and be self-reliant. He confirmed that as long as some people may not do things right there would be no end in sight for such clinical brain anomaly. Dr. Osei advised women not to rely on their beauty alone and must be serviceable and said beauty alone cannot secure them relationship, because some women may be beautiful than them.