Codependency

• Watch Our Video:
  
  Pia Defines Codependence and its symptoms
• Pia Mellody The Biggest Challenge

Do you doubt the idea that you are important? Do you keep your true feelings from showing? Do you tend to be “selfless,” putting others’ needs ahead of your own? Is approval from others the most important part of building your self-esteem? Do you feel that you are often subjected to relationship trauma by the very people you are so generously trying to help?

If you answered yes to these questions, there is a high possibility that you are codependent.

Codependency is an emotional disorder that impels sufferers to ignore their own needs while constantly fulfilling the needs of others. A sufferer may forfeit her own well-being and values in the pursuit of assisting someone else. After experiencing relationship trauma, codependents often form more unhealthy relationships because of their low self-worth. More often than not, codependents enter relationships with individuals who are irresponsible, emotionally detached, or excessively needy. Such relationships are likely to be abusive emotionally and perhaps physically. As a result, codependents tend to be downtrodden and oppressed in their relationships.

If unaddressed codependency continues over time, individuals may cope with their emotions by abusing alcohol, drugs, sex, or food. Those who seek emotional relief in food can develop eating disorders without even realizing the transition. The Meadows’ eating disorder treatment program helps individuals uncover and deal with acquired eating disorders; clients must look beyond their symptoms to consider any emotional or relational trauma that may have ignited codependency and the resulting unhealthy coping skills.

Codependency and its attendant issues are addressed everyday at The Meadows in Wickenburg, Arizona. To learn more about our codependency treatment program, dial .