emotionally dysfunctional

We have a staff person who still spends half her time working with families that are still emotionally dysfunctional.

The recovery movement is filled with stories of children who grew up having to take care of emotionally dysfunctional parents.

"Mom obtained some sort of official classification declaring our family emotionally dysfunctional.

By day's end, all had discovered that they were geniuses but also emotionally dysfunctional karmic failures.

Or even worse, better than admitting to the truth, because the truth was that I was becoming emotionally dysfunctional.

Bully: An individual, thought to be emotionally dysfunctional, who torments others through verbal harassment, physical assault, or other more subtle methods of coercion.

Tyson eventually put on a big round button that said he had found religion, which is often the last refuge of assorted scoundrels, rogue preachers, emotionally dysfunctional political candidates.

The actress explained her character as someone who "help[s] this kid who seems like he's a little bit emotionally dysfunctional," but noted that Emma does not yet believe there is a fairytale universe.

Both sides are portrayed as emotionally dysfunctional, and the likelihood that censorship advocates would miss that point amid the welter of nude images and recitations of unprintable terms seemed one of the show's leitmotifs.

Last season, this excellent Canadian series dramatized an emotionally dysfunctional Shakespeare festival trying to fight corporate creeps who wanted to turn the town where the festival is held into "Shakespeareville," and put on "Mamma Mia" productions on the main stage.