Dependent personality disorder

Dependent personality disorder (DPD) is a fearful personality disorder. DPD is far more common in women than it is in men. A patient with DPD usually feels worthless of being independent, due to being sheltered from all forms of danger, thanks to perfectionist parents or narcissistic parents. A dependent patient desires to impress everyone by allowing anyone to decide for one's self. As a result, a dependent patient will easily get walked over as a pushover by anyone who she or he worships and follows as being more powerful than one's self.
A patient with DPD will always say "yes" to follow and agree with everything of what she or he is told by the caretaker to avoid feeling abandoned, kind of similar to people with borderline personality disorder. Furthermore, a dependent patient chooses to never have an opinion of her or his own to say "no" to disagree, and she or he never chooses to look at both sides of the story to see who is confessing the truth or not. In other words, a dependent patient always believe what one person, mostly a cluster B person, says as her or his only source of news, instead of examining at other sources from others that are factual. Although an abuser assaults a victim, a person with DPD will cop out for an abuser by covering up every single conflict that happens between an abuser and the victim to lie to the world that everything is peaceful between them, enabling an abuser to proceed with getting away with it every time without banning the abuser. 
===Dysfunctional Relationship=== 
Unwisely enough, it is very common for a dependent patient to end up in codependent relationships with narcissistic partners or partners with BPD just to feel safe and not alone. This hurts the children of a dependent parent and her or his dominating spouse the most, since the children will get constantly abused at the hands of the authoritarian or emotionally unstable parent and a dependent parent will continue to encourage this dramatic behavior of her or his spouse without protecting the children from the abuser. Furthermore, the abusive partner doesn't get punished at all for being harmful to the children. Therefore, this makes the dependent patient just as guilty as her or his partner, and the general public looks down on them for creating and running a dysfunctional family. Besides, some children in the dysfunctional household will be put in custody of being cared for in a foster home. 
===Comorbidity===
The following conditions commonly coexist with DPD:
* Avoidant personality disorder (AvPD)
* Borderline personality disorder (BPD)
* Histrionic personality disorder (HPD)
* Obsessive love disorder
Dependent personality disorder at Wikipedia
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