I believe that Codependency (and most other addictions) are caused by two things: the need to heal emotional injuries incurred during childhood and the need to give yourself the love, nurturing and comforting that wasn’t available in past childhood. NOTE: If you only deal with the symptoms, you might be temporarily successful, but you won’t actually address the real reasons for your Codependency behavior…how can you expect the symptom-relief to be effective long term? Codependency SUPPORT, by its nature, can’t conceivably work…īecause the group creates codependency to the Group or leader by it's very nature.Īlso.Codependency SUPPORT GROUPS merely deal with your symptoms and not with your real problem, which is the answer to this QUESTION. Well, it’s time to let yourself off the hook. Maybe you’ve tried one or more SUPPORT GROUPS IN YOUR AREA, and when they failed you blamed yourself. You probably already know this there is no Codependency Group out there that actually works. At the same time, I find several problems that I could not come to terms with.ĬODA Support GROUPS GENERALLY DON'T GET TO AND RELEASE THE DEEPER ISSUES LOCKED IN THE SUB-CONSCIOUS MIND.related to codependency. I acknowledge the value of these programs. I’m not here to bash CODA, AA-or any other 12 step-program. WHY do Co-Dependents Anonymous.Meetings FAIL 95%.ĬODEPENDENCY GROUPS are hugely popular programs with, in my opinion, less than successful results (about a 5% remission rate). The Collapse of Co-Dependents Anonymous Meetings & Online CoDA