GASLIGHTING AND REALITY Imagine that you got up one morning and everything was different. Suppose that your life partner asked you why you were wearing a blue...
Codependency Symptoms Excerpted from: Coping with Codependency by Kay Marie Porterfield The opposite side of giving control over our lives to other people is...
Codependency: A Family Perspective By unknown author Edited by Irene Matiatos, Ph.D. Codependence is a set of maladaptive, compulsive behaviors learned by...
Help! Can I Fix It (My Codependency)? by Dr. Irene Matiatos Good news! You certainly can! You can get control over your life! You can stop trying to control...
Symptoms & Evaluation of Codependency "If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month." Unknown...
Some Causes of Codependency A Definition of Codependency (a) "A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her, and who is...
If only the abuser would stop! Codependency and addiction to chaos... Ironically, codependency isn't about other people - it's about the relationship with the...
Our Deepest Fear by Marianne Williamson (from her book "A Return to Love") Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are...
This Excerpt: Overcoming Fear [I suppose that on its face, the anecdote I share in this essay might seem mundane. Yet it represents a way of definitely - if...
A Guy's Editorial on "VictimThink" by Dr. Irene August 13, 2000 I got the following email recently: "I was going to write in a really sarcastic post (I...
Blaming The Victim vs. The Defensive Victim by Dr. Irene "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." -Erica Jong...
Remembering the Trauma In the same way that it is necessary to feel your emotions to be able to have a fully realized life, you will need to remember your...
Take Your Power: Tips for the Abused by Dr. Irene "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -Mahatma Ghandi Never forget that your partner's...
BLAME Blame never affirms, it assaults. Blame never restores, it wounds. Blame never solves, it complicates. Blame never unites, it separates. Blame never...
Welcome to Co-Dependents Anonymous: The CoDA World Fellowship _http://www.codependents.org/_ (http://www.codependents.org/) Free Terri In a message dated...
FORGIVE YOURSELF Make a list of all the decisions, actions, thoughts, that you feel you need to forgive yourself for. You need not show this to anyone....
Is it Love or Infatuation? Taken from drirene.com Infatuation is instant desire. It is one set of glands calling to another. Love is a friendship that has...
Online Help for Love Addicts by Susan Peabody, author of Addiction to Love: Overcoming Obsession and Dependency in Relationships. Love addiction comes in many...
LOVE ADDICTION... WHAT IS IT? WHO GETS IT? And WHY? Brenda Schaeffer Real love is not addiction nor is addiction love. Yet, because of the human condition,...
THE NEED TO BE NEEDED: CODEPENDENCE The term codependency, as first used in the alcohol treatment field, meant any person whose life was seriously affected...
Five Short Chapters on Change Chapter 1. I walk down a street and there's a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. It takes forever to get out. It's not my...
This photo of the prototype for a new Donald Trump Doll just kills me! Especially in light of the Trump VS O'Donell verbal combat going on as of late: Free...
Answering Machine of the Mental Health Hotline: "Hello, and welcome to the mental health hotline: If you are obsessive-compulsive, press 1 repeatedly. If you...
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WHAT KIND OF LIAR? It's not uncommon for abusers to be a combination of liar type! I.e., an abuser can be a PATHOLOGICAL LIAR and believe many of his/her...
PT :1 The Mystery of Loving an Abuser *Please note: this piece is not being shared as means of giving anyone a "reason" to remain with an abuser -only as a...
PT 2: The Mystery of Loving an Abuser *Please note: this piece is not being shared as means of giving anyone a "reason" to remain with an abuser -only as a...
Marital Rape "Damn it, when you get married, you kind of expect you're going to get a little sex." -- Senator Jeremiah Denton, Republican, Alabama, 1981 Is sex...
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