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🗓️ 28 May 2021
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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 |
0:05.2 | from you about dependent personality disorder. I recently did a deep dive on dependent |
0:11.2 | personality disorder, only available to patrons. And a lot of you listen to that and |
0:17.1 | had some questions about it. You want me to see if maybe your dad has dependent personality |
0:22.0 | disorder. That's everything. So I thought I would get into it. This is the Psychology and Seattle |
0:26.2 | podcast. I'm host Dr. Kirk Honda, a therapist and a professor. And I've treated many people with |
0:31.9 | dependent personality disorder. Anonymous patron writes in and says, I'm wondering if my dad has |
0:38.3 | dependent personality disorder. He has always been very gentle and kind, but quite unmotivated. |
0:44.9 | He is extremely intelligent, but never accomplished much in his career. When I was growing up, |
0:50.2 | he always had different low paying jobs. Everyone always loved him wherever he worked. And even though |
0:56.0 | he loved us kids and was a thoughtful person, he never wanted to go to any of our sports games |
1:02.1 | or performances or get involved with our schooling. My mom, my mom had to do everything. And I mean |
1:09.1 | everything for the family. She was the main breadwinner, the social planner, and the house planner. |
1:15.2 | And there were many arguments between my parents about this issue. My dad would seem cool and calm |
1:21.5 | and then explode when he was pushed too much by her. Growing up, I had it in my head that he was sweet |
1:28.9 | and loving, but lazy. I know his own mother was very controlling in many ways and had her own |
1:35.4 | struggles with OCD. Could it be dependent personality disorder? All right. So it's possible. But before |
1:44.3 | going into that, it's also possible that he suffered from depression or maybe even an addiction |
1:50.0 | that he didn't know about. But certainly some people can be depressed or even socially anxious. |
1:56.7 | And that can cause them to, so just to review some of the things that you said about him. |
2:02.0 | You say he's gentle, loving, sweet. You felt loved by him. But he seemed unmotivated and lazy |
2:11.6 | and never accomplished much, accomplished much. He always had low paying jobs. And he wouldn't go |
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