What is dependent personality disorder?

Dependent personality disorder is characterized by pervasive patterns of dependent, passive, and submissive behavior.

How do members experience dependent personality disorder?

Top 5 symptoms reported by people with dependent personality disorder*

*Reports may be affected by other conditions and/or medication side effects. We ask about general symptoms (anxious mood, depressed mood, fatigue, pain, and stress) regardless of condition.

Top treatments taken by people for dependent personality disorder*

*Data from patients with dependent personality disorder, who have ever reported treatments, ordered by their reporting frequency during the last 5 years.

Compare treatments taken by people with dependent personality disorder*

Treatment
Perceived effectiveness
Side effects
Total evaluations
Tried for
Perceived effectiveness
for dependent personality disorder (2 evaluations)
Side effects
Total evaluations
2
Tried for
dependent personality disorder (1)

*Data from patients with dependent personality disorder, who have ever reported treatments, ordered by their reporting frequency during the last 5 years.

Who has dependent personality disorder on PatientsLikeMe?

Age

Age Proportion # of patients
<20 2
20s 10
30s 41
40s 38
50s 23
60s 17
70+ 8

Distribution of sex

Sex

Sex Proportion # of patients
Male 31
Female 104