Shared Psychosis and Traumatic Bonding is a complex phenomenon. Shared psychosis (as it is formerly known as) is a delusional disorder in which a person may believe something that isn’t true — and begin to “infect” the people around them. Traumatic bonding includes a loss …

Traumatic bonding is a complicated topic because there are similar words that may describe you as well such as “shared psychosis” (or induced psychosis), codependency, and dependent personality disorder. Traumatic bonding has a specific set of challenges that separates it from other terms and often …