Childhood and Mid-Life Antecedents of Adult Self-Neglect

“I think it's so important to see that, [regarding] our childhood environment, we have a mechanism within our genetics to adapt to our environment within our lifetime. If you have an environment that says this is the way to thrive in this environment, your genes will turn on or off or express differently so that you can thrive in that environment. But, of course, that really can lead to so much more pain later in life as you're trying to make a different environment be similar to ones that you're prepared for.”