Codependency

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Dianne Schuler: When Denial Costs Lives

Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Addiction, Psychology, Addiction & Recovery, Mental Health, Codependency, Dianne Schuler, Addiction & Recovery, Parenting, Living News

Denial is a dangerous thing, it can leave families shattered and broken, make perfectly good lives sail off track and in the case of Dianne Schuler, it can be the direct cause of eight deaths.

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Just Say No: 10 Steps To Better Boundaries

Therese Borchard | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Boundaries, The Balanced Life, Relationships, Saying No, Codependency, Communication, Living News

Until recently, "no" was a dirty word to me. As a stage-four people-pleaser, my vocabulary was rich with affirmatives: "sure," "okay," "absolutely," "no problem." But my mouth couldn't seem to form the word "no."

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Why Do Some ACOAs Thrive in Spite of the Odds?

Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 10.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Acoas, Addiction, Mental Health, Codependency, Living News

Dealing with the sorts of challenges that living with addiction inevitably poses can challenge kids, to say nothing of leaders of the free world, to develop unusual talents and strengths.

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Adult Children of Alcoholics ACoAs: Qualities and Traits

Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Acoas, Addiction & Recovery, Codependency, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Living News

It has long been clear to me that being an ACoA needs aggressive and long term treatment. Ignoring the damage only allows it to leak out in intimate relationships.

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Diane Schuler: The Sad Legacy of Alcohol and Drug Abuse

Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 10.27.2009 | New York

Read More: Acoas, Drug Addiction, Ddriving Drunk, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Codependency, Addiction & Recovery, New York News

The sad truth is that children who live with addicted parents get in the car with drunk moms and dads every day, just as Diane Schuler's children and nieces did the day they were killed.

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Narcissism In A Bottle: The Self-Centeredness Of Addiction

Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 09.02.2009 | Home

Read More: Addiction, Acoas, Narcissism, Children of Addicts, Codependency, Home News

Both the narcissist and the addict are first and foremost self absorbed. They come first.

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Codependency Pt 2: An Incomplete Sense of Self

Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 08.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Addiction, Acoas, Psychology, Codependency, Acoa, Codependence, Raising Children, Personal-Boundaries, Behavioral Psychology, Living News

When the attachment with a parent is fraught with fear, the child can become overly preoccupied with getting it right for the parent rather than for themselves.

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Tasmanian Michael Goes to Bermuda: How Recovery Came and Found Me (Again)

Mike Doyle | Posted 06.13.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Codependency, 12 Steps of Recovery, Codependence, 12 Steps, Happiness, Chicago News

If there's anything I hate about recovery it's all the aphorisms that are bound up with it. I didn't want to hear another pithy saying. All I wanted was some iota of hope for the future.

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