Emotional Traffic And Self-Talk? Take Leadership!
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 And Codependency
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...
Codependency: The Impact Of Our Beginnings
Think about the following situations and the resulting behaviour...
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...
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...
Narcissist Discard: A Blessing In Disguise
Being involved with a narcissist is like having a tornado blow its way through your life. Once it has died down, you are left with a mess...
Narcissism: How Devaluing Destroys Their Codependent Victims
If you had the chance to study the way a narcissist behaves in a relationship, you might recognise a distinct pattern. A three stage whirlwind of a relationship that will leave a victim emotionally...
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