Gabor Mate: The Childhood Lie That’s Ruining All Of Our Lives

Financial stress. On the parents translates into physiological stress in the children. They didn't inherit anything in terms of a disease. They're just reacting to the environment. People call Dr. Gabo Mate the people whisperer, legendary thinker and best selling author. He's highly sought after for his expertise on addiction, stress, and childhood development. The evidence linking mental illness and childhood adversity. is about as strong as the evidence linking smoking and lung cancer. And the average physician Doesn't hear a word about that. It's astonishing. I can give you the example of Donald Trump.

I mean his father was a psychopath. You are the enemy of the people. Go ahead. For him these were not choices so much as survival techniques, and that's the mark of a traumatized child, a denial of reality. What do I have to understand about your earliest years to understand you? My grandparents were killed in Auschwitz, and my mother and I barely survived. And then my mother to save my life gives me to a stranger in the sense I guess that I'm being rejected and abandoned'cause I'm not good enough. How did that rear its

Ugly head throughout your life. See trauma as I define it is not about what happens to us, it's about what happens inside of us as a result of what happens to us. It's costing us in terms of our physical health, our relationship, our mental health and so on. How does one go about correcting that? It's a multi-layered answer. First of all Without further ado. I'm Steven Butlett.

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