Dependence is a term with various uses that can be used to refer to a relationship of origin or connection, to subordination to a greater power or to the situation of a subject who is not in a position to fend for himself.
Political dependency
Political dependency refers to the nullification or limitation of the will of a leader or a community to make fundamental decisions.
This type of dependency can arise for strictly political reasons (such as a threat of retaliation by a power) but also for economic reasons (when a country depends on the money it receives from another State as investments or credits) or cultural reasons (due to the action of globalized media).
Addictions cause a dependence on the substance consumed.
The scourge of addictions
Medicine and psychology speak of dependence when a person has a compulsive need for some substance to experience its effects or to placate the discomfort that arises from its deprivation. Legal drugs (such as alcohol or tobacco) and illegal drugs (cocaine, heroin) generate dependency.
In other words, we cannot forget about other types of dependencies, such as drug addiction. Drug addiction is also known as that health problem that all those people who habitually use and abuse addictive substances, drugs, such as heroin, marijuana, cocaine, designer pills, have.
Emotional dependency
On the other hand, for example, we would have to talk about what is known as emotional dependence. In other words, it is a type of relationship that is based on the fact that it is unstable, toxic and, above all, unequal. And it is that one of the two members feels subordinate to the other.
The result of this sentimental union is that the dependent has low self-esteem, feels underestimated and also idealizes the other member. In this way, he will experience a hard and complicated situation in which he has moments in which he realizes that it is not a good and happy relationship, however, he cannot cut it off because he has a “hook”.
There are people who, due to their level of disability, depend on other individuals to subsist.
Why is he not able to cut that sentimental union? Because he is afraid of being alone, because he believes that he will not find anyone else who loves him and because he completely or partially lacks social skills.
In addition to all this, those who suffer from emotional dependence identify themselves because they always need to be liked, because they give up being themselves, because they constantly need attention and affection, because they isolate themselves from the rest of the world by considering that they only want to be with their partner. …
The concept linked to disability and an office or room
Another type of dependency is social dependency, which appears when a person has a high degree of disability or dysfunction and needs the help of third parties to survive. A common example of this dependence occurs with the elderly who need help to eat or move.
A dependency, finally, can also be the dependent office of another superior or the room dedicated to the services of a house: “Tomorrow I have to go to a Revenue dependency to regularize my tax situation”.
