Codependency: The Impact Of Our Beginnings
Think about the following situations and the resulting behaviour...
Choice Not Impulse Moves Codependents Forward
Anyone who is a regular reader of my work will know that I work with a lot of codependents who generally share a similar set of behaviour patterns with each other...
The Many Manifestations Of The Inner Critic
The concept of an inner critic is well known but most people have to deal with more than one manifestation. There might be one that attacks you for doing too much of something and another who then berates you for being lazy...
The Lengths That Some Will Go To Keep Their Partner Happy
There is a storyline that runs in the well-known tv series Breaking Bad when one of the main characters rents a house from a woman who he develops a relationship with...
Codependents And Alcoholics: Keeping The Addiction Cycle Turning
There is much written on the internet (including by me) about the "new codependency", the "love addiction", documenting poor souls trapped in relationships with "narcissist"...
Codependency: From Co To Counter
ue to their lack of self-esteem and the inability to self-care, codependents become enmeshed with others easily. They work on the idea that all the while they are like this...
Alcoholism: How It Is Destroying Relationships And Families Everywhere
Over the years as a therapist, I have seen the rise in alcohol abuse among patients and in the environment around them. Many of them can only feel good when they can escape their problems through a drunken haze...
Relationships: Counter-dependence Or Interdependence?
In my last post, I wrote about the characteristics of counter-dependency and how this is defined by projection of a "strong" personality that hides the fear of true intimacy and commitment...
Fear Getting Close To Anyone? You Could Be Counter-dependent
The media and TV often celebrate people who are "strong". Especially in the western world, strength is indicative of the ability to get things done, have a mindset of ambition...
How Codependency Can Make You Sick
I believe firmly that it is only a matter of time before codependency becomes a recognised disorder. As discussed many times by this author...
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