Living With Dependent Personality Disorder (DPD)

  When we talk about dependent people, we sometimes reinforce certain biases and myths. In fact, it’s common to visualize these people as weak beings, without character, who live their lives perpetually anchored to others. Moreover, we tend to associate this pattern of behavior with the female gender. However, dependent personality disorder (DPD) also appears in many men. Indeed, it’s interesting to know that this part of the population, when exhibiting anxious and depressive characteristics, can present this condition originally described by Sigmund Freud. These captives of absolute defenselessness permanently suffer. They tend to repeat verbalizations such as “I can’t…