Ever wondered why the punchline to every psychology joke always has something to do with either our childhood or our issues with our parents? Or why people lying on a therapist couch tend to answer the question ‘so tell me about your problem’ with, ‘it all began when I was little’.
“From a very young age people gain both positive and negative side of life even though the other may seem to be too dominant. We grow up to realise that so many things happened to us as children and we fail to forget about them and it eventually shapes how we approach life,” counsellor and host of that conversation on RB2, Tshepho Shoshong explains.
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