Revealing the Family Roles in Addiction & Codependency

20 Aug 2025 · 56 min
56:12

German-language lecture by Dr. Dawn‑Elise Snipes explaining how addiction and codependency develop and shape family systems. The video defines addiction and codependency as chronic, pain-avoiding adaptations, presents the "Trauma-/Drama‑Dreieck" (victim, persecutor, rescuer) and classic family roles (identified patient/addict, enabler, hero, scapegoat, lost child, mascot), and links these patterns to disrupted attachment (ABCD mnemonic), developmental harm (HPA-axis activation, inflammation, sleep and executive dysfunction), and relapse dynamics via family homeostasis. The talk emphasizes that roles are survival strategies, describes boundary work and recovery supports (vision boards, consistent attention/responsiveness), and ends with brief live Q&A comments about CPTSD and diagnostic issues.

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