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Got Low Self-esteem by IraIsraelofIraIsrael.com

According to the founder of Primal Therapy, Arthur Janoff, when a baby is put down alone for the

first time, say in its own room while the parents sleep in another room and allowed to cry itself out,

the baby registers being put down as, why are you leaving me alone to die? You're killing me.

And please note the pun, put down means late to sleep with infants but

usanize with pets. Janoff argues that being put down for the first time creates a core or

primal abandonment and betrayal wound. Later in life according to this theory,

when our partner cheats on us or we are fired from a job that we love,

we become distraught because this abandonment or betrayal reopens our core wound.

The unwitting ramifications of infants being put down to sleep alone and then sent off

to school until the child becomes acclimated to these new realities could be staggering.

As animals, I believe that we are meant to be in our mother's arms and sleeping with our primary

caregivers, provided a secure environment for four or so years. But the highly competitive nature

of late capitalism has caused people to shorten this secure stage when the baby's needs are

taking care of in the name of creating productive members of society as early as possible.

A longer earning potential is a greater earning potential.

One of the themes of how to survive your childhood now that you're an adult is that our

rather abrupt individuation processes have created a majority people whose abandonment fears

from insecure attachments manifest as both anxiety and depression, which are afflicting

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