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Codependency Quiz

Is it codependency, or are you just a good friend?

90 seconds. It opens on what you want, which is the easy part, and ends on what being on call has already cost you. You leave knowing the habit you keep picking, and one move for this week.

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  • You tap, you never typeThe first ones are easy to answer. The last ones are the reason people close the tab.
  • One habit, namedThe one your answers kept choosing, with the line it is known by and how often it came up.
  • One move for the weekWritten from that habit, and sized so it is done by the weekend rather than started.

Codependency, or a friend who is good in a crisis?

Codependency is the word from the books. On TikTok it has a plainer name: the therapist friend. The test is what happens when it is your turn. A good friend listens, then gets listened to. The therapist friend never gets a turn, and stopped asking for one years ago.

From outside they look identical, which is why nobody has told you. From inside, one leaves you with somebody to call at 11pm. The other has you answering their crisis at 1am, and saying you are fine when they ask. If they ask.

  • Someone asks how you are and you turn it back to them
  • You give advice you have never once taken yourself
  • Saying no to a friend who needs to vent feels cruel
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The 11 this test reads from

Your answers are scored against the same 11 the app watches. One will come back more than the rest, and that is the one worth a month.

  • A desk call bell
    People pleasingSaid yes anyway, then resented it all week
  • A sealed envelope
    Not saying what you thinkChanged your opinion mid-sentence, because of a face
  • A dial turned down low
    DownplayingMade something you like sound like nothing much
  • A tissue box with one tissue pulled up
    Being everyone’s therapistThe group chat therapist who had nobody
  • A heavy cardboard moving box with its flaps open
    Hyper-independenceCould not ask for help without feeling like a burden
  • Two shoes side by side, one a different style from the other
    Losing yourselfMolded yourself to fit into his life
  • A phone lying face up showing two read receipt ticks
    Anxious attachmentA delayed text became a full character study
  • A door slightly ajar with a key still in the outside lock
    Pulling away firstLeft before it could be done to you
  • A single crumb on an otherwise empty plate
    Accepting breadcrumbsThe breadcrumbs felt better than the silence
  • A glass of water standing completely still
    Peace feels boringIf it was not hard you assumed it was not real
  • A theatre mask held up on a thin stick
    PerformingPolished where people can see, holding it together underneath
One of these 11 is taking more than the rest

The test names the one your answers keep choosing, and hands you a move for the week.

Show me the one I keep picking

A starting mark, and the week it starts moving

This page names habits. It does not put a size on them. Answers given once cannot tell a bad fortnight from a 10-year habit, and a number invented on the spot is precision nobody earned.

What you get here is the habit you kept picking, the 2 beneath it, and a move for the week. The size, and the 8 habits you did not name, arrive in the app, where they are scored again every week and week 9 sits beside week one.

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Questions

I’m not with someone who drinks. Can this still be codependency?

Yes. The word came out of addiction treatment around 1980, about the partners of people who drank. It has widened since. A 2004 review of published definitions found 4 threads that keep coming up. Attention goes to other people first. Your own needs go last. You try to manage how others feel, and keep your own feelings down. None of the 4 needs anyone to drink.

Isn’t it a good thing to care this much?

Caring is good. The question is whether anyone does it back. A friend who listens and gets listened to has a friendship. A friend who only listens is on call, and being on call wears out the one doing it. The quiz shows which of the 2 your week looks like.

Is this quiz a real test?

No. It is not a clinical instrument and it does not diagnose anything. What it does honestly is name which of 11 habits shows up most in what you chose, and hand you one move for the week. Anything promising a diagnosis from a quiz is selling something.

Do you keep my answers?

They stay in this tab and go no further. The app works the same way: what you tap lives on the phone.

Why is there no score at the end?

Because answers given once can name a habit and cannot size it. A quiz handing out a 12% or a 94% is inventing a decimal it has not earned. The size is worth having when there is a second reading to put beside it, which is what the app is for.

What happens at the end?

You get the habit your answers kept choosing, named, with the 2 underneath it and the line the app uses for each. Then one dare, written from the biggest one, and sized so it is done by the weekend rather than started.

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