What Are Personality Traits in Adult Children of an Alcoholic Parent?
Question by Alcoholic Researcher: What are personality traits in adult children of an alcoholic parent?
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Answer by shy25fj
That’s a big list, and none of them apply to everyone, but here are some:
Become isolated
Fear people and authority figures
Become approval seekers
Be frightened of angry people
Be terrified of personal criticism
Become alcoholics, marry them or both
View life as a victim
Have an overwhelming sense of responsibility
Be concerned more with others than themselves
Attracted to compulsive personalities
Feel guilty when they stand up for themselves
Become addicted to excitement
Confuse love and pity
‘Love’ people who need rescuing
Stuff their feelings
Lose the ability to feel
Have low self-esteem
Judge themselves harshly
Become terrified of abandonment
Do anything to hold on to a relationship
Become “para-alcoholics” without drinking
Become reactors instead of actors
Good Luck!!!!! Run far and fast!
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