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Dependent personality disorder

Personality disorder involving excess dependence on others

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
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Dependent personality disorder (DPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a pervasive dependence on other people and subsequent submissiveness and clinginess. This personality disorder is a long-term condition in which people depend on others to meet their emotional and physical needs. Individuals with DPD often struggle to make independent decisions and seek constant reassurance from others. This dependence can result in a tendency to prioritize the needs and opinions of others over their own.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Dependent personality disorder” is personality disorder involving excess dependence on others. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Dependent, personality and disorder, not as a finished interpretation.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dependent personality disorder” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.