(in Polish) Współuzależnienie WF-P-PSRIIPU-W

Co-addiction is analyzed as a multidimensional (physical, mental and spiritual) state expressed in functional disorders caused by concentration on the needs and behaviors of others. It develops from the moment of resigning from responsibility for managing own life and take care of someone else.
The concept of co-dependency assumes that certain features may be shaped in childhood spent in a dysfunctional family, primary in relation to dysfunction associated with codependence.
As part of the lecture, characteristics characteristic for people brought up in dysfunctional families are analyzed, leading in subsequent relations to co-addiction: difficulties in experiencing self-esteem, in other words in a proper self-love; difficulties in delineating between themselves and other people, that is, protecting one's personality; difficulties in properly defining and addressing own needs and desires, that is, taking care of oneself;
The essence of co-addiction is the increasing involvement in a destructive relationship with an addict. Such a relationship can be entered either by a person with personal problems or emotional disorders, as well as a healthy person. However becoming a co-dependent depends on the fact whether a person can change or leave such a system, or he/she will adapt to it.
The lecture discusses the characteristics of co-addicts, especially such as: permanent dependence on self-esteem from the ability to control oneself and others in an emergency; taking responsibility for satisfying the needs of others, even at the expense of not meeting their own; tendency to relationships with people with personality disorders, addicts.