Dependent Personality Disorder - Chapter 3 (Deep Dive)(2021Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 26 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, deserving listeners. This is chapter three in my deep dive on dependent personality disorder. |
| 0:06.1 | This episode is just for patrons of the podcast, but I'm going to have a little intro here. |
| 0:11.1 | Today's chapter I'm going to talk about, I think it's going to be the final chapter. |
| 0:14.6 | I'm going to talk about outcomes of dependent personality disorder, like what happens, like what relationship problems people have with it, |
| 0:21.9 | that sort of thing, victimization of others, victimization by others. |
| 0:26.2 | I'm going to talk about the history of the construct, kind of in brief, kind of not. |
| 0:32.2 | And I'm going to talk about the treatment. |
| 0:33.4 | But first, I want to give you the third example, the fictional composite of a fictional person I'm naming Tammy. |
| 0:42.5 | So Tammy is our third case example. |
| 0:46.9 | We talked about Aiden in chapter one. |
| 0:49.1 | We talked about Michelle in chapter two, talked about Tammy in chapter three. And as I always say, these examples are |
| 0:57.3 | completely fictionalized. They're cobbled together from probably, you know, I don't know, |
| 1:01.7 | 30 to 50 people that I can reference. And any one of those people would not recognize themselves |
| 1:08.4 | in this description. All right. So, Tammy, |
| 1:12.8 | she was terribly traumatized as a child. So with Aidan and Michelle, we didn't see tremendous abuse, |
| 1:21.2 | but with Tammy, we see lots and lots of abuse, lots of chaos. As a teen, she mostly kept to herself. She saw herself as a |
| 1:32.6 | loser, and she was very envious of other kids. She had terribly low self-esteem. She had complex |
| 1:40.8 | PTSD. She sometimes thought about suicide. |
| 1:44.8 | Every day at some point, an invasive thought would invade her brain that she was worthless and no one would ever love her. |
| 1:52.4 | She tried hard in school, though. |
| 1:54.3 | Other students saw her as the teacher's pet. |
| 1:57.6 | She would stay after school and talk with the teachers, and she did whatever they asked |
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