Many of us struggle with the questions: What is codependence? and Am I codependent?

We want precise definitions and diagnostic criteria before we will decide. As stated in our Eighth Tradition, Co-Dependents Anonymous is a non-professional fellowship. We offer no clinical definition or diagnostic criteria for Codependence

What we do offer from our experience are characteristic additudes and behaviors (see "Recognizing Co-Dependent Patterns") that describe what our personal codependent histories have been like. Perhaps you identify with some (or many) of them...?

We believe that recovery begins with an honest, a self-diagnosis. We came to accept our inability to maintain healthy and nurturing relationships with others and ourselves. We began to recognize that the cause lay in long-standing destructive patterns of living....

...and that CoDA held the key to our recovery.