blame themselves for everything. pick on themselves for everything, including the way they think, feel, look, act, and behave. get angry, defensive, self-righteous, and indignant when others blame and criticize the codependents—something codependents regularly do to themselves. reject compliments or praise. get depressed from a lack of compliments and praise (stroke deprivation). feel different from the rest of the world. think they’re not quite good enough.
