Research Paper On Co-Dependency

Co-dependency is a learned behavior that affects the person emotionally and physically; complications of maintaining a healthy relationship to their significant others due to the addiction of drug use that leads to one-sided love; abusive and/ or destructive. A person can experience the co-dependency from a dysfunctional family, because of the repeated feelings of fear, sad, pain, etc., from a family member that is emotionally, physically, or sexual abusive (MHA). Co-dependent people usually like to feel the need to care for others, and learn to deny and ignore their own needs, which then they start to produce a low esteem of themselves. They soon will feel the need to self-medicate on drugs or do compulsive behaviors such as, gambling, workaholic, or …show more content…
The symptoms of co-dependency are worried about other opinions; feels guilty or bad about their significant other and their mistakes, troubled feeling, and difficulty accepting things. The treatments that can treat the condition of co-dependent people are the experiential groups, and individual and group therapy, as well as, analyzing the person’s childhood issues, and their behavior with destructive behavior patterns (MHA) The goal of this treatment is to assist them to feel the feelings that were ignored or deny in their childhood years. The website, addictionandrecovery.com, provides some suggestions to help an addictive person, and family members. To help an addictive person, the family members should learn and understand the cycle of addiction and recovery, try to create a new healthy life together where drugs are not involved, and do not make excuses for the addicted person; let them face the negative consequences and they might change (addictions and