Alcohol Codependency

Alcohol codependency is a pattern of coping mechanisms followed by someone who lives with a person who is addicted to alcohol. The person who is called a co-dependent tends to become self-defeating and it becomes a habit. The home where such a situation of alcohol codependency prevails becomes dysfunctional. There exist behaviors which are detrimental to the healthy living. Their actions and beliefs also become very different and injurious to the family bonding. There is no trust and the members do not talk to each other frankly about the things faced by them. Living in such a condition of alcohol codependency almost always results in anxiety and worry.

Usually the stress levels of these homes are increased because of the rigidity in the rules set by the family members to overcome the addiction of the family member which has created an atmosphere of alcohol codependency. They will not allow anyone to cross this line of control and if somebody does it that is considered non-conformance. On the contrary, all the members in the family are free to talk and let out their emotional feelings by way of sharing, trusting and speaking the truth in healthy families. There may be arguments but they always or most of the time end in a healthy conclusion and consensus. These families function better. The family members lead a free and healthy life, whereas in unhealthy families where alcohol codependency is found, the family members are to live like prisoners without freedom to express what they think about themselves and others.

In these situations of alcohol codependency the codependent person, though one or more tend to get into some ways of coping in order to survive. They do not want to break their family set up and suffer a lot by developing self defeating means of facing the addiction resulting in alcohol codependency. There is a pattern found in all the co-dependents. In the process they lose their own emotions in course of time. It is a question of concern that the person who is facing alcohol codependency becomes an addict to behaving in a strange way to people in and out of the family.

When the co-dependent in the environment of alcohol codependency loses touch with his or her feelings tries to relate his self-worth and behaviors to that of the alcoholic person. Ironically in most of the cases even after the alcoholic person is cured of his addiction, the co-dependent in the alcohol codependency environment does not come out of his set habits. And shockingly sometimes they also feel upset because the earlier set up was disturbed, though it was causing destruction to the family.