News of Dependent Personality Disorder

My best friend shows very strong signs of DPD(such as major self sarcifice to please others, no self worth, and allowing others to make pretty much all decisions for her) and within the last year and a half she has lost the two people she was most dependent on for major life decisions and for her self worth. I was wodering how those of you suffering from this disorder would/have reacted to the death of ...

I know i been posting much, and im sorry if im anoiying.

Yesterday me and my boyfriend saw some movies before we went to sleep, but after we watched them all a fear grabbed me. I know this has happend before. I feel very afriad and the need to hide. So i took som medicene for anxiety and went to bed really close to my bf.

Does anyone know what causing this?

Is this the ...

Im 20 years old and have been searching for answers since i was 11 why i am the way i am. This year i found a great new shrienk after beeing passed over too new ones each year cos they dident know what was my problem. He found out with many tests that i have dpd. At first i cried alot and chouldent really handle the fact that this was who i am. But now ...

My deal is a three-parter.
Firstly, I'm thinking too much. I'm a 21 year old waitress, I feel like I shouldn't have crippling anxiety, but truthfully I thought I was going crazy until I realized that's what it is. I think about everything way too much. Every slightly awkward situation is intensified by the millions by the time it reaches my brain. I'm embarrassed for other people who aren't even embarrassed for themselves. When someone ...

I am someone with DPD & BDD who tries desperately to maintain a lie which is safe to live in.
In this world I am very young - around 14, (however select mannerisms portray me as sometimes younger); although I am capable of higher maturity - and such phases potentially appear transparent to other people - these times do not feel like facades or acts to me, but a natural way of coping and being; ...

Unfortunately, over the past few weeks, I have realized that my ex is and has been codependent for a long time. Unfortunately, I did not realize it until a month or two after our relationship ended. She is living with a borderline roommate who has done numerous things to hurt her emotionally, financially, professionally, physically (endangering her safety with bringing home random men), and from a relationship standpoint (her and me).

I believe that I ...

I’ve just had the best giggle in my entire life thanks to my GP and his letter of referral I asked for.

In his letter he states I have a history of Depression and Dependent Personality Disorder.

Now I need some advice from you all…

I had heard of some personality disorders and the word dependent made me think it was that I depended on someone. I quick Google check and I’ve learnt a lot ...

i feel like my mom is pushing me away. i am so much more depressed. i don't know what to do with myself. all i can do is cry and obsess about m y rapunzel fantasy world where i don't grow up ever. i am always overprotected, the way i want it. i'm slipping up again. i'm cutting and hitting myself and getting into the pattern of not eating.

i just want it all to ...

hi, i'm new here. i have not been diagnosed with dpd, but i feel like it is more than possible that i have dependent personality disorder. i just wanted to know what you think.

i have always wanted to please everyone and have many times done things for people that i was really, really uncomfortable with (sexual stuff) so that they wouldn't leave me. time and time again i make myself miserable to make others ...

Brief history...

I was 10 days into my 16th year of life when I woke to find my father dead in the bedroom next door( heart attack). I am one of nine but after a bitter divorce, only I lived with him.

My sister (22) whom I am closest with just married and moved out of the country.

My sister (20) spent two weeks in the neuro ICU with viral encephalitis given a 6% chance ...