I think its a disease called "Learned Helplessness"

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I walked out of my office today because I was pretty mad. I work in a technology department and a marketing department. Whenever I'm in the marketing department there is this one person I work with who treats me like I'm his personal technology assistant. Most of the time I'm just like 'whatever' and I help him. To avoid a long story, This guy and another co-worker basically told me that I should "Take time away to personally train" this guy. Uh.. seriously? HECK NO. They were treating me like I was obligated to help him. First of all, I help because I'm nice and I know how to solve his idiotic problems (they are seriously idiotic, sometimes he can't find that button on the email to send the mail...you know the one that says SEND) but we have a help desk that you are supposed to call when you need...what? HELP. Duh. Anyway, this guy in general is one of those people who is very co-dependent. Rather than looking up something himself "what is that departments number? How do you spell multiply? Who was the first woman on the moon?"... he just blurts out his questions and expects someone to answer him. It doesn't matter if you're trying to work... having a conversation with someone or on the phone. He's very oblivious to that also. peopleonmylotaskstupidquestionstheycouldeasilyresearchtoobuti'llignorethat! Personally, I find co-dependency to be one of the worst traits in a human being. With exceptions, of course. Then again, I've always been a very independent person who will go for help as a last resort. Are you co-dependent? Do you know co-dependent people? How do you feel about co-dependency? and of course I mean co-dependency in an excessive way. In some ways everyone is a little co-dependent.