Dr. Caroline Leaf

They are having a response, a reaction.

If you're repeatedly abused, obviously you're going to be a behavior problem.

You don't even know how to cope with yourself.

You're going to hate yourself.

You don't know what to do.

You don't know who to trust.

You don't know where to turn.

So that will manifest in whatever you can do to cope.

And that's going to be different for everyone.

And obviously it's on a negative spectrum, but that's not a disease.

So what has happened over the last few years is prior to that, we would see your experience as a reason for how you show up.

Now, your experience is not the reason for how you show up.

It's your brain is broken.

That's the reason for why you show up like you do.

So if a child's battling with behavior issues or the person's really depressed, it's not about your story.

That

you know, yes, your story is going to make it worse, but they're saying it's your brain, it's your genetics, and that's wrong.

And when you have that view, it's unscientific, it cannot, the science, 40 years of science has shown it's the wrong way of doing it.

It doesn't work.

It's made things worse.