Hey, deserving listeners. Today's episode is a deep dive on dependent personality disorder. This is the first chapter. I think there'll be three or four chapters. I'm not quite sure yet. This is just for patrons of the podcast. But I have a little bit of a long intro here for everyone. So at first, I thought it was just going to be a short episode. You know, I've done a lot of deep dives and some deep dives take me months to work on and some deep dives take me, you know, maybe one month or three weeks or something.

I didn't think there'd be that much prep.

But the more I got into it, the more I realized that dependent personality disorder is a very important disorder for me to

understand as a clinician, but also I think for everyone else to understand. There's a lot to

it. It's pretty complicated. And the more I thought about people in my life, the more I realized

that dependent personality disorder is everywhere. I mean, you know, it's not

everywhere, everywhere, but it's a lot more prevalent than I thought. I've had many clients with

this disorder that I didn't really understand that they had this. I mean, I might have conceptualized

them kind of, but not in the way that I could have if I understood this disorder and its causes.

And a lot of people in my personal life

have suffered from this disorder, or they're on the spectrum, if you will. And understanding

this disorder really helps me understand them and their weird behaviors, or weird behaviors

according to me, I should say. And I consider dependent personality disorder to be

as important for clinicians and maybe even for lay people to understand just as important

as narcissistic personality disorder or borderline personality disorder. All of us, even lay people,

especially if you've listened to this podcast, you've heard of narcissism, you've heard of borderline. But I think dependent personality disorder. All of us, even lay people, especially if you've listened to this podcast, you've heard

of narcissism, you've heard of borderline. But I think dependent personality disorder is an equally

important concept for everyone to understand because I think there's a lot of people that confuse us

that are operating from the schemas involved in this disorder. It's very useful to know about,

very rarely talked about. We hear a lot about narcissism in our culture and in our clinical work.

We hear a lot about borderline. We don't hear a lot about dependent personality disorder strangely.

And I have my theories, which I'll get into you later. So in this lecture, I'm going to present

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