Codependency

Codependency is a learned behavior, with children observing the effects of addiction on their parents.

Codependency is an emotional and behavioral condition. It often involves the denial of a harmful behavior in a relationship, as well as the enabling and maintenance of the behavior in order to keep the status quo, or to feel indispensable.

Codependency is a term for a set of problem behaviors in dysfunctional relationships. There is no common agreement about how to define this term. It is used in many different ways to describe many different experiences.

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Codependency is the tendency to interact with another person in an excessively passive or caretaking manner that negatively affects the quality of the codependent individual's life.

Codependency. Many aspects of the ex-drinker's relationships change when drinking stops, making it difficult to remain abstinent: ...

Drug use can disrupt family life and create destructive patterns of codependency, that is, the spouse or whole family, out of love or fear of consequences, inadvertently enables the user to continue using drugs by covering up, supplying money, ...

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" Marital counseling and family support are often needed for long-term stability and resolution of codependency problems. Attending Al-Anon and Alateen meetings can be helpful to the patient's relatives.

See also: Abuse, Addiction, Substance Abuse, Anxiety, Pregnancy