Originally Posted by
LisaJean1970 
It sure seems like a lot of people here have been hurt so badly that they can't tell genuine love from Codependency. Or are just so bitter that they are incapable of lvoe themselves, and therefor refuse to accept that anyone else can still love.
I don't think this is the place for me. Thanks anyway.
Hello LisaJean,
I am a recovering alcoholic, an adult child of an alcoholic and a recovering codependent.
Did you happen to read any of the forum for Adult Children of Alcoholics?
I think it was suggested earlier.
I too, suffer from a major depressive disorder, which is now managed with medication (not the way i tried, 20 years of alcohol).
Boy, do I understand the pregnant brain thing. I was ridiculous, and my last pregnancy, I ended up in the hospital with toxemia. Please take care of yourself.
I am capable of love, I just had to learn a new way of thinking.
Doing for others what they can do for themselves, especially when they don't ask for help is codependency. I am trying to remember that right now, my heroin addicted son picked up again on Sunday, and is "out there" after 4 years of sobriety. I loved my son from before he was born, by my love cannot fix his addiction.
Beth