MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS
Dependent Personality Disorder
Dependent personality disorder (DPD) is characterized by intense feelings of inadequacy or incompetence, extreme fear of being alone, and severe helplessness. For people struggling with DPD, these feelings can seem relentless and inescapable, constantly keeping them from living full, self-sufficient lives.
Solara Health understands the unique challenges that DPD presents and has created a specialized therapeutic program to promote long-lasting relief and recovery in the lives of those with DPD. Our combination of individual psychotherapy, group therapy, and holistic therapies allows clinicians to develop comprehensive, individualized, and flexible treatment plans for each client. Through these plans, clients are empowered to identify roadblocks on their path to healing, find ways to break down those roadblocks, and ultimately build up their sense of security and self-confidence.
Gaining Understanding, Independence, and Autonomy
One of the most common personality disorders, dependent personality disorder usually manifests itself in early adulthood. The disorder heavily impacts the formation and maintenance of interpersonal relationships: those with DPD have extremely low self-esteem, an intense fear of being abandoned, and noticeable helplessness. As such, people with DPD are heavily reliant on others, depending on them for everything from help getting through everyday tasks, making simple choices, and even maintaining a sense of self. For some with DPD, this dependence is so deeply engrained that they may enter into—and remain in—damaging or abusive relationships because the fear of confrontation or abandonment runs so deep.
Symptoms of DPD vary from individual to individual, but can including the following:
- Inability to make choices without asking for help from others
- Avoiding disagreements or conflict out of fear of being abandoned
- Constant need for reassurance
- Lack of self-sufficiency
- Disproportionate anxiety about interpersonal relationships ending, and extreme turmoil when they do
- Strong feelings of inadequacy, low self-confidence, and little self-trust
Solara understands how difficult these symptoms, both struggling with them and overcoming them, can be. To aid lasting recovery, Solara provides a residential program to clients with DPD, giving them a place away from both dependent relationships and damaging thought and behavior patterns. Away from these things, clients can break destructive habits and learn new, healthy ones that will allow them to practice making independent decisions and build their self-confidence.
Our highly experienced and knowledgeable clinicians are familiar with the unique challenges that treating DPD can present. As such, our clinicians are highly conscientious in all client interactions, ensuring that the client-therapist relationship does not become dependent. Similarly, our clinicians create thorough and personalized treatment plans for each client, helping clients delve into the roots of their dependency and develop new, healthy ways of managing symptoms. Through this process, clients come to a fuller understanding of themselves and their worth, allowing them to build self-confidence, practice self-sufficiency, and create peaceful, healthy, and happy lives for themselves.
While our clients make considerable and rapid improvements, dependent personality disorder is often a long-term condition. Understanding this through years of experience, Solara Health provides the entire spectrum of care from in-residence to outpatient to transitional living to continuing, customized case management of long-term aftercare planning to ensure maximum, long-term success. Solara Health is committed and dedicated to freeing our clients from the clutches of dependent personality disorder, and our program is created to ensure this.
Contact us now to start the healing process.
