The Emotional Experience of Children in Substance Abused Environments

Co-dependence is a disease of lost selfhood, writes Charles Whitfield. People become co-dependent when they turn their responsibility for themselves over to their ego (false self) and/or other people. They become so preoccupied with others that they start to neglect their true self.

• Introduction
• The process of wounding
• Defence mechanisms help to keep the masks in place
• Some characteristics of the true self and the masked (false) self
• Adopted roles, or masks
• Counselling children with learned behaviour
• Interesting Facts about co-dependence
• Symptoms of co-dependence
• Are You Co-Dependent?
• The following is a commonly used list of characteristics of co-dependency
• What is co-dependency?
• Co-dependency and its relationship to self-worth
• Guilt and shame
• Acquired behaviour