Codependency Defined
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Michael S. Logan
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Codependency Defined
Codependency has a number of definitions, and before we get to those, I want to talk a little bit
about the beginnings of this quintessential self help movement.
I first became...
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Codependency Defined
Codependency has a number of definitions, and before we get to those, I want to talk a little bit
about the beginnings of this quintessential self help movement.
I first became aware of the term codependency in the early 1980 s when I first got sober.
I read a book called Hope and Health for the Alcoholic Family by Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse,
which was a great relief to my emotional struggles then, because it gave me a framework for
explaining my entire life and all the chaos that went with living in a house with two, count them,
two alcoholic parents.
In fact, I remember thinking that Wegscheider-Cruse must have been in my house, watching us,
the descriptions fit so perfectly, and it was a great relief to know that I was not to blame, and also
that there was a way out of the internal emotional and cognitive chaos that I was experiencing in
those early days of sobriety.
In those early days, I was very good at identifying the problems, and very inexperienced at the
solution, so I had to stick with the tools that others had used before me, the 12 steps of AA, and
trust that sometime down the road, the promises that were part of AA and offered by this new
model would manifest for me, and they have.
I began reading everything I could get my hands on in regards to codependency, not so much to
learn a codependency definition, but because having words to describe my experience made it less
"crazy", so I am grateful for the codependency self improvement movement.
There were many others who were and are experts in the codependency field, including Claudia
Black, Robert Subby, John Bradshaw, Ann Wilson Schaeff, Melodie Beattie, and Terry Gorski,
whose works were and are important.
I attended Codependents Anonymous and ACOA meetings, and this self help movement has
continued to grow.
Codependency Definition
Codependence is a pattern of detrimental, behavioral interactions within a dysfunctional
relationship which is regarded by some as a form of disease.
This definition is from Wikipedia.
From Merriam-Webster;
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