Experts warn that mysterious Rebecca Syndrome is on the rise - so are YOU a victim?

Coming crossed pictures of your spouse with an ex successful their arms oregon connected a romanticist getaway connected societal media is an each excessively casual occupation successful the satellite of modern dating.

But experts assertion it could beryllium fuelling a occupation called 'Rebecca Syndrome', with experts saying they person seen a emergence successful enquiries astir the little-known condition. 

Also called 'retroactive jealousy' Rebecca Syndrome refers to mean feelings of jealously but astir things that occurred successful the past, specifically your partner's erstwhile intersexual and romanticist relationships. 

Sufferers may compare themselves to their partner's ex and judge this past person is amended looking, smarter oregon adjacent amended successful bed.

Although you whitethorn person ne'er heard of 'Rebecca Syndrome' you whitethorn cognize the Gothic caller it's named after. 

Authored by Daphne du Maurier successful 1938 'Rebecca' follows a young pistillate who marries a affluent man. 

But aft moving into his home, she finds herself incapable to header arsenic the household and section assemblage are inactive devoted to his precocious archetypal wife, Rebecca. 

Dr Darian Leader, a psychoanalyst and founding subordinate of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research successful London, took inspiration from the caller and coined the term Rebecca Syndrome to notation to retroactive jealousy.

But this syndrome is not conscionable a enactment of fiction, with galore radical admitting to being plagued by these illogical emotions. 

Psychotherapist Toby Ingham, who has written astir the condition, admits he's had an expanding magnitude of radical enquiring astir Rebecca Syndrome since 2018.

Mr Ingham believes the emergence successful enquiries is owed to radical Googling and self-diagnosing their 'obsessional problem', which helium stresses is 'not a bully idea'. 

However, helium explained that alternatively than being caused by relationships directly, retroactive jealousy often has it roots successful childhood. 

'While these aboriginal problems volition beryllium unsocial to each of us, they may, for example, subordinate to our having felt overlooked by a genitor who preferred 1 of our siblings to us,' helium told MailOnline. 

'Or possibly to problems feeling we were unimportant oregon excluded successful our commencement family.

'The occupation is that we thin to suffer show of those aboriginal experiences and instead, we task the issues onto our contiguous relationship.'

This tin permission radical 'vulnerable' to feeling arsenic though they are being 'pushed out' oregon 'excluded' again, erstwhile it is often the lawsuit that they are not. 

'We go excessively caught up successful our projections to recognise the difference,' helium explained. 

One systematic review in 2017 of 230 studies connected romantic jealousy recovered it was often rooted successful debased self-esteem and past experiences of infidelity. 

Studies suggest jealousy successful a narration is comparatively common.

Research successful 2017 study on joined couples successful narration counselling recovered 79 per cent of men and 66 per cent of women confessed to being jealous. 

While not a occupation successful itself it tin perchance rigger narration issues.

But there's bully quality if you fishy you mightiness beryllium suffering from Rebecca Syndrome with Mr Ingham saying determination are a fewer ways to tackle it. 

'Ask yourself whether your anxiety, your intrusive thoughts astir feeling little important to your spouse than their erstwhile partner, whitethorn truly subordinate to your ain past alternatively than it being thing to bash with your existent relationship,' Mr Ingham said. 

He besides stresses the value of refraining from scrolling done your partner's aged societal media provender arsenic this tin conscionable unleash Pandora's Box.

While it whitethorn beryllium tempting to look backmost connected aged pictures, including those with their ex, this volition lone exacerbate feelings of jealousy and marque it easier to autumn into antagonistic thought patterns, helium warned. 

Another 2018 interview-based study recovered societal media whitethorn promote retroactive jealousy arsenic you are much readily capable to cheque details of your ex's past relationships.

For the aforesaid crushed Mr Ingham besides urges radical to not to inquire excessively galore details astir their partner's past that they whitethorn regret learning the answers to.

'Don’t inquire astir your partners past, peculiarly their intersexual histories, oversharing astatine the commencement of caller narration often comes backmost to haunt us,' helium said.