When you are hooked into codependent behavior, it’s easy for co-crazy thinking to go off the rails. Perhaps you begin to make up stories in your head about why people behave in a particular way (you believe it’s personal). Or maybe you think you can read people’s minds; you start obsessing about ways to control or manage another person and consequently your feelings of anxiety intensify. The classic example of this reactive thinking is when we want to stop someone else’s addictive behavior. But this distorted thinking happens in many types of relationships, not just ones where there is addiction.…
