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Co-Dependence

Codependent or (codependency or codependence) is a tendency to behave in overly passive caretaking ways that negatively impact one's relationships and quality of life. It also often involves putting one's needs at a lower priority than others while being excessively preoccupied with the needs of others. Codependency can occur in any type of relationship, including in families, at work, in friendships, and also in romantic, peer or community relationships. Being codependent may also be characterized by denial, low self-esteem, excessive compliance and/or control patterns.

Codependence or being codependent "comes directly out of Alcoholic Anonymous, part of a dawning realization that the problem was not solely the addict, but also the family and friends who constitute a network for the alcoholic." It was subsequently broadened to cover the way that the codependent person is fixated on another person for approval, sustenance, and so on. As such, the concept overlaps with, but developed in the main independently from, the older psychoanalytic concept of the "passive dependent personality....attaching himself or herself to a stronger personality.

Some would say that the stricter interpretation of codependent or codependency, which requires one person to be physically and psychologically addicted, such as to heroin or alcohol and the second person to bepsychologically dependent on that behavior.

Codependency describes behaviors, thoughts and feelings that go beyond normal kinds of self-sacrifice or caretaking. For example parenting is a role that requires a certain amount of self-sacrifice and giving a child's need a high priority, although a parent could nevertheless still be codependent towards their own children if the caretaking or parental sacrifice reached unhealthy or destructive levels. Generally a parent who takes care of their own needs (emotional and physical in a healthy waywill be a better caretaker, whereas a codependent parent may be less effective or may even do harm to the child.

In the case of an alcoholic who consistently denies that he or she drinks to much and when they drink is constantly and consistently getting some kind of trouble that he cannot correct himself or herself and neds someone to take care of them and straighten out all the many mishaps that occur because of the drinking. It is a never ending cycle as long as the alcoholic continue to drink. Alcoholic cannot control the drinking and therefore is unable to control his/her attitude and behavior which causes everyone so much harm and destruction. This is true of every addict and the family friends and loved ones who depend on them for support that they are unable to give or sustain because of the habit/addiction. In the play addiction-denial is a perfect example of addiction first denial second and the continuing trouble it causes

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