Codependency Stories Day 1
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...
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...
Conflict in a relationship is inevitable. In itself, conflict is not a problem; how it is handled, however, can bring people together or tear them apart...
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...
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...
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"...
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...
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...
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...
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