Codependency: When Caring Becomes Losing Yourself
Oct 4, 2026 · 41 min · 12 segments
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Oct 4, 2026 · 41 min · 12 segments
It's not in the personality disorders.
And that doesn't mean that the behaviors people describe as codependent aren't real.
And the concept really – emerged from the substance abuse world.
Clinicians started noticing that addiction didn't just affect the person using alcohol or drugs.
It affected the entire family system.
Everyone in the household begins adapting.
Someone covers for the substance use.
Somebody calls the employer, says they're sick.
Someone pays the bills they forgot to pay and so on.
and so forth.
And what actually was the original term, it was, they call it co-alcoholic.
And that's the history of the term, what we now refer to as codependency, and it really moved beyond addiction.
It's not in the personality disorders.
And that doesn't mean that the behaviors people describe as codependent aren't real.
And the concept really – emerged from the substance abuse world.
Clinicians started noticing that addiction didn't just affect the person using alcohol or drugs.
It affected the entire family system.
Everyone in the household begins adapting.
Someone covers for the substance use.
Somebody calls the employer, says they're sick.
Someone pays the bills they forgot to pay and so on.
and so forth.
And what actually was the original term, it was, they call it co-alcoholic.
And that's the history of the term, what we now refer to as codependency, and it really moved beyond addiction.
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