News of Dependent Personality Disorder

For a while I've wondered if it's possible for me to genuinely make friends or genuinely be in love with somebody, rather than just feeding off of their attention. I just read about DPD about 15 minutes ago and it's me to a T. I guess that explains some things that have frustrated me about myself for a while. But how do you get around it? Here, in a nutshell, is why I feel completely ...

I heard that with this disorder, you'll channel your dependency one way or another. It said that if the principle person whom you are dependent on leaves your life, you'll make instant friendships indiscriminantly and throw honesty to the wind to build the friendships quickly. This sounds like me. It seems so sordid and shallow...but its what comes natual, almost like my survival instinct. However Im trying not to depend on friends or whatever, but ...

Hi,

I've only recently discovered that I may have this disorder and was wondering if anyone can recommend a good book to tackle it...and if so, will it mean avoiding seeking therapy. I'm from the UK and therapy is not common.

I grew up depending on my sister to 'look after' me. My parents, although appearingly loving didnt know how to handle me and 'spoiled' me (which I believe to be neglect). I couldnt do ...

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Even when i suspect i can suffer another form of PD Can i suffer DPD as well?

this is a list of matters that i would like to know if you also have :

As a child i have obsessions and compulssions the mean one was the feeling that i wasnt existed. this feeling distresed my a lot for several years

I have no friends and enjoided most solitarie ...

(I haven't had the time lately to see my therapist so I'm venting it out here!)

Anyway, I've found in the last several weeks I've been feeling increasingly depressed and after a short phone call with my therapist he suggested I had DPD. I'm only 17 but I've been through enough "relationships" to rival my grandparents, I'm a recovering bulemic, I obsess over my appearance to the point that I'm late for work/class, and if ...

And it kind of confuses me.

Particularly after I've spent some time on the internet researching.

My husband is a peach of a guy. Loving, kind, not abusive in any way. Not the sort of relationship that co-dependency seems to rely on.

It seems that my counselor said she see's codependency in me (on our 2nd visit) because of my stated need to seek affirmations in others to feel solid in myself. I went to ...

I have a good friend who has been in bad relationships all the time and been physically,mentally and emotionally abused in all of them.She calls me up every day and tells me she's ugly and worthless and I tell her she's very beautiful.She always asks me for advice and/or do favors for her like call numbers for her.She always dates men,whom she just met, who treat her bad,but when I ask her,she always pushes me ...

Hello, this is my first time visiting this forum. I want to briefly introduce myself. I am 30 years old and reside in Florida with my boyfriend of almost one year.

I am an only child, and throughout my childhood I dealt with losing various members of my family to illness. As I grew older, I believed that my fear of losing others stemmed from losing so many people at a young age. It ...

:( More than one therapist has told me I have a dependant personality disorder. Other people have told me I'm codependant. But when I read about it I think -- no, that's not exactly me.
Maybe it just matters if part is true. Yes, I'm just coming out of a relationship with someone with a narcissistic personality disorder. I guess DPDs and NPD's are made for each ...

There is a variant of schizoid personality which shows some similar signs of dependency to DPD:

The 'Higher Level' schizoid

"Because the schizoid has not had the benefit of an
experience of contact and trust in infancy, the most positive
relationship that he can manage is one in which he is not being
attacked. He accomplishes this by assuming a part self representation of a trapped, helpless, completely comliant person relating to another ...