Describes how people get into a caretaker role with a borderline or narcissist and how they can get out.

" Recovering addicts are faced with many challenges, and these challenges can often extend to their romantic partners. During the recovery period, couples often struggle with overcoming feelings of betrayal and frustration, and may have a hard time rebuilding trust and closeness. While there are many resources available to recovering addicts, there are limited resources for the people who love them. In Loving Someone in Recovery, therapist Beverly...

Living with an addict can be crazy. Your world becomes consumed with lies, uncertainty, and chaos. Over time, you start to feel hopeless. Learn to rise above the storm, regain control of your life, and detach from the problems of addiction in order to create an environment that encourages a positive change in the addict.

Do you know someone who... Has trouble being close to others? Has a strong need to be right - all the time? Acts selfcentered and egotistical? Never asks for help? Has to look good all the time? Works long hours but never finishes? Expects perfection in self and others? Seldom appears vulnerable or weak? Has difficulty relaxing? If so, this person may suffer from counterdependency, the littleknown flip side of codependency. The Flight from Intimacy,...

What is this book all about and why should I want to read it? I will try to explain, but first, I will explain what it is not about. This is not a scholarly attempt to impress anyone or a deep study of some complex theology, but instead, it is written in a way that anyone can easily understand it: sometimes you may think, as you read, that this was written for a fifth-grade child to read, and it was. That does not mean that I'm looking down on the...

Ma définition de l'amour n'a strictement rien à voir avec la violence ou la manipulation. Dépendante dévoile avec transparence la descente aux enfers que j'ai connue avec un ancien conjoint. En plein coeur du chaos, j'ai dû comprendre les pièges de la dépendance affective et sexuelle qui m'ont poussée à me perdre dans cette relation toxique, destructrice et violente. Du harcèlement à l'avortement, j'ai appris à me tenir debout et à reconstruire...

There is a great deal of 21st century brain and addiction-related research now possible thanks to advances in brain imaging technologies. These findings are exploding long-held beliefs about addiction and addiction treatment and the impacts of a loved one's substance misuse on family members and friends. Loved One In Treatment? Now What! simplifies this research and answers questions, such as: - What causes addiction? Why do some people become alcoholics...

If you are one of the nearly 80 million Americans affected by someone's drinking, this book is for you. This updated version explains what it is about coping with a loved one's drinking that is so harmful to the family member's physical and emotional health. It answers questions like: • why is alcoholism considered a brain disease? • what does it take to treat it? • why is alcoholism different than alcohol abuse? • and what does the brain,...

Do you want to stop relying on relationships to meet all of your emotional needs? Then keep reading... Do you need to find love and validation outside of yourself to be able to function properly? Are your abandonment issues so severe that you feel as if one of your limbs is being amputated when someone leaves you? Like most psychiatric concepts, codependency issues, symptoms, and effects are complicated. In almost all cases, codependent disorder...

Renfield is the tortured aide to history's most narcissistic boss: Dracula. For centuries, Renfield has slavishly servied Dracula by procuring his master's prey and doing his every bidding, no matter how debased. But now, Renfield is ready to see if there's a life outside the shadow of The Prince of Darkness, if only he can figure out how to end the toxic, codependent relationship.