Dependent Personality Disorder - Chapter 2 (Deep Dive)(2021 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Deservant Listeners, today's episode is Chapter 2 in my deep dive on dependent personality disorder. |
| 0:07.3 | This episode is just for patrons of the podcast, but I'm going to have a short intro here. |
| 0:12.8 | So in Chapter 1, I went over a full description of dependent personality disorder. |
| 0:19.1 | In this episode, I'm going to go over the causes as I see them, |
| 0:23.9 | and according to the research of dependent personality disorder and dependency in general. |
| 0:29.5 | This is perhaps the most important chapter because I think when you understand the causes, |
| 0:34.6 | everything else makes sense. But first, I thought I would give my second case |
| 0:40.4 | presentation or fictional composite of someone with dependent personality sort. In chapter one, I went over |
| 0:47.3 | Aden, and this time I'm going to talk about a fictional person named Michelle. And these are completely fictionalized. I'm just completely |
| 0:56.8 | made up from a composite of literally dozens of people. So let's get to it. So Michelle, |
| 1:04.4 | so she was born into a family and she's the last of four children. As a young child, she was very easygoing, and she was much |
| 1:14.1 | easier than the other kids, although she was anxious often. She was anxious of strangers. |
| 1:21.6 | And her parents appreciated how easy she was, but they were mildly concerned about her fears of strangers. |
| 1:29.9 | As a child, her parents fought a lot. |
| 1:33.3 | Eventually, her parents got a divorce, and she witnessed a lot of the fighting, as all the |
| 1:39.3 | children did. |
| 1:40.7 | And it was protracted over a number of years. |
| 1:44.1 | Her older sister, Michelle's older sister, was parentified and took care. and it was protracted over a number of years. |
| 1:49.1 | Her older sister, Michelle's older sister, was parentified and took care of Michelle. |
| 1:53.0 | Her sister was rewarded for taking care of Michelle. |
| 1:59.3 | Her big sister resented that responsibility, but also kind of liked that responsibility. |
| 2:20.0 | But due to her resentment, she took out her anger on Michelle. She was parentified and taken care of Michelle, but she also was very harsh with Michelle as a younger sister. Michelle appreciated the attention from the big sister, but also often felt humiliated and small and incompetent. |
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