Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

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<b>An Expert Guide to Achieving Serenity for Codependents Who Want to Take Care of Themselves</b>
</p><p>• Have you become so absorbed in other people's problems that you don't have time to identify, or solve, your own?<br />• Do you care so deeply about other people that you've forgotten how to care for yourself?<br />• Do you need to control events and people around you because you feel everything around and inside you is out of control?<br />• Do you feel responsible for so much because the people around you feel responsible for so little?</p><p>By its nature, alcoholism and other compulsive disorders create victims out of everyone close to the afflicted person. Whether the person you love is an alcoholic, a gambler, a foodaholic, a workaholic, a sexaholic, a criminal, a rebellious teenager, or a neurotic parent, this book is for you—the codependent. This inspiring new overview of codependency by Melody Beattie, a recovering alcoholic and former chemical dependency counselor, details its characteristics, where the behavior comes from, and how it affects us and those around us. Offering hope and guidance, <i>Codependent No More</i> discusses several options to controlling behavior and helps us understand that letting go will set us free.</p><p><b>"We're so grateful to see that no one gets hurt. No one, that is, but ourselves.</b> —Anonymous Al-Anon Member</p>