Bad Bosses: 3 Ways to Spot the Codependent

Your mental health and your physical health are at risk, if you work for a codependent boss. How do you spot one? After all, you know how to spy a narcissistic boss. They’re divas enthralled by their own voices, clamoring for the adoration of crowds, and surrounded by folks they regard as their minions who must avoid their spotlight or get the chop. As the movie Dirty Dancing almost said, “Nobody puts the narcissist in the corner.” Other ways to spot a narcissistic boss include: they hate being interrupted; detest being disagreed with; and when they joke, you’d better laugh. Narcissists can be charming at first. But similar to leaving cheese languishing in the sun — after a while, they can get up your nose. Narcissistic bosses and codependent bosses are quite different. Here’s how to spot a severely codependent boss: 1. They’re Perfectionists Many codependent bosses grew up deprived of love in households where caregivers gave them inconsistent or consistently scarce emotional support. The upshot? Many of them would have: Attempted to parent themselves. Regarded many adults as untrustworthy. Taken on tasks that caring adults should have done for them. Experienced feelings of low self-worth that would have made them believe falsely that they are ill-suited to society, when we are each more alike than we often assume (your DNA sequence is about 99.9 percent identical to any person whom you care to mention, from Madonna to Floyd Mayweather to that chap that liv...
Source: World of Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tags: Anxiety and Panic Industrial and Workplace Personality Psychology Relationships Self-Esteem Self-Help Success & Achievement boundaries and narcissists Codependence Codependent Communication Emotional Support Insomnia Low Self E Source Type: blogs