Questions Asked by Dr. Phil
1. Do you avoid potential problems by trying to keep the peace? Do you do whatever you can to avoid conflict?
No, but my parents do that on the outside.
2. Are you in denial about your loved one being addicted? Do you think his or her drug or alcohol use is just a phase and isn't anything to be concerned about?
No, I am just addicted to m***********. I'm on psychiatric pills I don't need.
3. Do you minimize the situation? Do you think the problem will get better later?
Yes, I minimize the situation. I only hope I can make the problem get better later.
4. Do you lecture, blame or criticize the chemically dependent person?
Yes, but they don't make fun of me.
5. Do you take over the responsibilities of the addicted person? Do you cover for and pick up his or her slack to minimize the negative consequences? Do you repeatedly come to the rescue — bailing him or her out of jail, out of financial problems or other tight spots?
My parents care for me cuz I'm on pills I have to take as long as I'm in their house and advised to by my present psychiatrist, who said to leave him if I stop. Yes, my parents do the dishes whereas they did not wanna. My mom does my towels it ends up often these days, too. They constantly pay for me but like I don't deserve it from them.
6. Do you try to protect your addicted loved one from pain?
My parents don't seem to know how.
7. Do you treat him or her like a child? Do you enjoy taking care of your loved one and feel superior when you do? Do you still financially support him or her, even though he or she is an adult?
Yes, that happens to me.
8. Do you try to control the dependent person?
No, they just act uncomfortably around me, like specifically waltz around the house mockingly.
9. Are you good at just enduring? Do you often think, this too shall pass?
Yes.
10. Do you give him/her one more chance ... and then another ... and just one more?
I never did anything wrong. If I did, it was an accident. I don't repeat things. So, I don't have a problem other than my heritage, which has come from my parents.
11. Do you join him/her in the dangerous behavior, even when you know he or she has a problem?
My parents do seem to do that, but I try to avoid it. They would go crazy if I said they were mean and sending me secret messages.