Codependency is a vicious form of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Codependency is a vicious form of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
“Codependence is a very vicious and powerful form of Delayed Stress Syndrome. The trauma of feeling like we were not safe in our own homes makes it very difficult to feel like we are safe anywhere. Feeling like we were not lovable to our own parents makes it very difficult to believe that anyone can Love us. Codependence is being at war with ourselves - which makes it impossible to trust and Love ourselves. Codependence is denying parts of ourselves so that we do not know who we are. Recovery from the disease of Codependence involves stopping the war within so that we can get in touch with our True Self, so that we can start to Love and trust ourselves.” “The war we were born into, the battlefield each of us grew up in, was not in some foreign country against some identified “enemy” - it was in the “homes” which were supposed to be our safe haven with our parents whom we Loved and trusted to take care of us. It was not for a year or two or three - it was for sixteen or seventeen or eighteen years.” “Instead of blood and death (although some do experience blood and death literally), what happened to us as children was spiritual death and emotional maiming, mental torture and physical violation.”
On this page is an excerpt from Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls describing Codependence as a form of Delayed Stress Syndrome.
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