Short YouTube conversation (Anne Truong MD) exploring how past comments — even small or long-ago remarks from partners — can negatively affect self-esteem and whether adults can become less impacted by such comments compared to childhood-formed core beliefs.
I have actually heard a story like that where a patient came to me and he was with a girlfriend and the girlfriend just faintly said, oh, you know, you're not the same size as my last boyfriend. And that has impacted him.
Yeah.
Going forward. That was like years ago. It was done as an adult. So I wanted to ask you, so as an adult, are we able to Teflon that more or are we still get impacted like the same as when we were younger?
You can certainly still be impacted by that. I think the core beliefs, your foundational beliefs are formed when you're a kid. They say that by the time you're eight years old, you have most of your foundational beliefs that you're going to have for the rest of your life in place unless you intentionally go in there and upgrade them as an adult, which most people do not do because they don't know how. And.