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By Bob Treanor
Rappahannock News Writer
During the course of my work as a Mental Health Clinician, I have frequently encountered people who could be classified as "co-dependents".
These are those who live or work around a chemically dependent person, usually an alcoholic. The greater the emotional closeness the more pronounced the damage they experience and those most effected are people in the families of alcoholics.
Alcoholism is a "progressive" disease and as the alcoholic gets worse, the co-dependent subtly molds his/her personality to fit this deterioration. Frequently the co-dependent (co-alcoholic) can be damaged as much (or more) than the alcoholic.
In an alcoholic family, the
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