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| codependency symptom checklist |
As codependents, we....
- Feel responsible for others' behavior, but often don't take responsibility for our own.
- Need to be needed.
- Expect others to make us happy.
- Can be demanding or indecisive.
- Can be attentive and caring or selfish and cruel.
- Often see situations as wonderful or awful, "black or white", with no room for ambiguity, or "gray".
- Often overreact to people or situations which we can't control.
- Seek affirmation and attention, or sulk and hide.
- Believe we are perceptive, and sometimes are, but often can't see reality in our own lives.
- See others as being "for us" or "against us."
- Get hurt easily.
- Use self-pity and/or anger to manipulate others.
- Feel like we need to rescue people from themselves.
- Communicate contrasting messages, like, I need you. I hate you.
- Are deeply repentant, but commit the same sins again and again.
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