Dependent Personality Disorder (Follow Up)(2021 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, deserving listeners. It's just me today. I thought I would respond to a bunch of emails from you about dependent personality disorder. |
| 0:08.2 | I recently did a deep dive on dependent personality disorder, only available to patrons. |
| 0:14.5 | And a lot of you listened to that and had some questions about it. |
| 0:18.5 | You want me to see if maybe your dad has dependent personality disorder, that sort of thing. |
| 0:22.9 | So I thought I would get into it. |
| 0:24.9 | This is the Psychology in Seattle podcast. |
| 0:26.7 | I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. |
| 0:28.8 | I'm a therapist and a professor, and I've treated many people with dependent personality disorder. |
| 0:34.2 | Anonymous patron writes in and says, |
| 0:36.1 | I'm wondering if my dad has dependent personality disorder. |
| 0:40.3 | He has always been very gentle and kind, but quite unmotivated. |
| 0:45.0 | He is extremely intelligent, but never accomplished much in his career. |
| 0:49.3 | When I was growing up, he always had different low-paying jobs. |
| 0:53.1 | Everyone always loved him wherever he worked, |
| 0:55.4 | and even though he loved us kids and was a thoughtful person, he never wanted to go to any |
| 1:00.9 | of our sports games or performances or get involved with our schooling. My mom had to do everything, |
| 1:08.0 | and I mean everything for the family. She was the main breadwinner, the |
| 1:13.1 | social planner, and the house planner. And there were many arguments between my parents about |
| 1:18.3 | this issue. My dad would seem cool and calm and then explode when he was pushed too much by her. |
| 1:25.6 | Growing up, I had it in my head that he was sweet and loving, but lazy. |
| 1:31.0 | I know his own mother was very controlling in many ways and had her own struggles with OCD. |
| 1:36.9 | Could it be dependent personality disorder? All right. So it's possible, but before going into that, it's also possible that he suffered from depression or maybe even an addiction that you didn't know about. |
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