Codependency Stories Day 3
oday we meet R. An elderly woman who has been married for 40 years to an emotionally distant husband in a very dysfunctional relationship...
oday we meet R. An elderly woman who has been married for 40 years to an emotionally distant husband in a very dysfunctional relationship...
Welcome to the second day of the Codependent Stories. M is a fictional character based on my client's experiences...
B is a fictional character based on my client's general experiences. All events depicted here actually happened in someone's life (or a group of people) in the last week...
Many codependents I work with are stuck in relationships that are abusive, unfulfilling and going nowhere. The sad thing is that they are also going nowhere and stay when they know they should logically leave...
Can you imagine being locked away with another person for a number of years, isolated from the outside world and seemingly helpless to escape?...
What is the point of therapy unless there is a clear measurable goal? A question I have often asked myself and one that I am sure many people who seek therapy ask themselves too...
Using the term "Analysing the voices in your head" will often conjure up images akin to the famous film One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest starring Jack Nicholson...
We all experience self-talk to varying degrees. Some of it can be positive but mostly it berates us, make us feel guilty, angry, can encourage us to slip into addiction…
Masochistic Personality Disorder was removed from the latest version of the DSM. Some eminent scholars, notably Theodore Millon, regard its removal as a mistake and lobby for its reinstatement in future editions...
Think about the following situations and the resulting behaviour...