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Dependent personality:
Definition:
Persons with this disorder surrender responsibility for major areas of their
lives to others and allow the needs of those they depend on to supersede their
own needs.
They lack self-confidence and feel intensely insecure about their ability to
take care of themselves. They often protest that they cannot make decisions and
do not know how or what to do. This behavior is due partly to a belief that
others are more capable and partly to a reluctance to express their views for
fear of offending persons they need with their aggressiveness (ie, a form of
aggression against self). Dependency occurs in other personality disorders where
it may be hidden by obvious behavioral problems; eg, histrionic or borderline
behaviors mask underlying dependency.
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