Journals of Lord Malinov

the poetry of madness

slurping time

"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."

Co-dependence - where I come from, the term is used to describe a person who helps to maintains their partner's dependence on a vice because the dependence on the vice maintains the partner in a state where the partner is also dependent on the person.  I need my fix - you help me get my fix - so I need you - so you need my vice.

Hence, one person is dependent on the vice and the other person is co-dependent on the vice.

People are not co-dependent on each other.  A person cannot be described as a "co-dependent."  Used in that fashion, it sounds like a tax term.  Can I claim you as a co-dependent?

Just a pet peeve.  My eX used to toss the term around as a justification for everything she had done.  Never mind that she was herself dependent.  It was all clearly my fault.  Jeez Louise.  I would have got away with it too, if it weren't for you kids.

My belief in the mental health community is rather faded these days.  I believe completely in what they do, but have discovered that many haven't a clue, or much of one.  The willingness to toss around flip diagnosis and analysis is disturbing. 

Cecil says there is no proper English term for the "bathroom" fixtures.  All we have are polite and impolite euphimisms.  We're apparently socially afraid to discuss our place of defecation and urination.  Pardon me while I take a "rest."

Patents, money, c*nt.  Get working.

Malinov

posted by: Malinov at 07:24 | link | comments |

Comments: