When someone is addicted to alcohol or drugs, that person's problems affect the entire family. The family members often share some of the addicted person's beliefs and behave in similar ways. The term "codependence" refers...

Codependency personality disorder is a condition in which a person focuses on by living through or for another person, attempting to control the actions of others, attempting to "fix" others, feeling an obsessive need to take care of others, and...

The term codependence replaced an earlier term, coalcoholism, in the early 1970s and achieved widespread acceptance among the general public during the 1980s. Both terms point to problematic beliefs and behaviors that family members of chemically...

Codependence (or codependency) is a popular psychology concept popularized by Twelve-Step program advocates. A "codependent" is loosely defined as someone who exhibits too much, and often inappropriate, caring for persons who depend on him or her. A...

This paper examines the occurrence of codependency in a college-age population. The association between various measures of codependency is investigated in a sample of 165 college students. Almost 50% of our university subjects were familiar with the term codependency. Most of the respondents...

Her headaches and dizziness are a result of the blood not circulating properly to the left side of the brain, but I can't find any physiological causes for it." The neurosurgeon removed his black-framed glasses and looked squarely into my mother's face. ...

When I ride the New York subway, I’m the envy of most guys around me. I’m ruggedly handsome and have an understated sense of style (it seems I’ve perfected the sexy just-got-out-of-bed look) and I often have a big grin on my face—one that is...

I’m seething. My husband, Jon, has snuck outside to smoke. Again. The smell is wafting in through the bedroom window. He’s quit a few times, but he always starts up again—just, it seems to me, when abstaining should be getting easier. His backslides strike in...

Facts and information about the mental illness of codependency.