One thing that I find to be affirmative with a lot of the people that I talk to is that they've already decided their feelings to their approach to life. The rest of their life is spent trying to explain it to themselves and everyone around them because there's an apparent attachment to their initial feelings, that makes them hold tight to it--upbringing, childhood, ego, identity, memories.
They can't let go. They recycle the same thing in their brain over and over resulting in the same outcome during the process of becoming adults. They hold on to it, because that's what they know from experience and to many, experience is their teacher. Experience is also their "home" due to familiarity, regardless of how dysfunctional that may be.
I can probably count on one hand how many times I've seen anyone actually "change" from their original perspective. We hold tight to our demons, and when we don't, we revert to mystical entities that will supposedly change our lives in the name of hope.
Hence, your brain's recycle bin.