Codependency a Personality Disorder? When "Love" Wounds The Enabler.


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Jul 02 2022 20 mins   3
Codependency a Personality Disorder? When "Love" Wounds The Enabler - An examination of how a psychiatrist in the mid-1980's proposed Codependent Personality Disorder to the DSM 3 working group - why it wasn't included in the DSM, still has not been and what does that mean for how to define and understand Codependency. It has outdated definitions as well. AJ Mahari talks about how Codependency is a painful mental health challenge.
Does it need to be pathologized to be better understood? Does Codependency need a more across the board definition and understanding to effectively help people identify with it to be able to heal?