Many of the false beliefs that drive a person with a dependent personality were learned—and they can be unlearned. Newtherapisthub explains how.
, impulsivity, or self-destructive activity. Be careful, too, because, though BPD also carries a female stereotype, people are more apt to jump to that conclusion in a male faster than considering he may have a dependent personality. A sharp clinical eye is necessary, as it's not unusual that the two disorders co-occur .That’s right. The dependent personality, another traditionally-feminine stereotype, is no stranger to men.
In the end, Borstein likely had it right when he concluded that gender-equal numbers are quite possible, but males, for social desirability reasons, minimize dependency tendencies in interviews and inventories. We must also consider it may be missed in male patients because of therapists' genderlens.