Hi Niyata,
Yes, he has issues with himself. Anger comes from unexpressed emotions. Critical people have the most criticism reserved for themselves, they don’t like themselves they’re expressing outwards their own dissatisfaction, and when they do this they show themselves and you, that they are there own worst critic.

Another technique you can use is, when someone says something negative or horrible is to say:

1 – Thank you for sharing that – this will devalue what they’ve said – after all, it’s only their opinion, it’s not fact.
Sometimes that may work, if not step 2…
2 – Sorry, could you repeat that slowly, I didn’t quite hear that – this will give them some thinking time, and 9/10 they will retract what they said.
Sometimes that may work, if not step 3…
3 – Sorry, are you trying to hurt my feelings? – This will illiterate that they may not actually be trying to hurt your feelings, so they may say “no of course not, what I meant was….” (you just understand it differently). Alternatively, if they say Yes, Yes I was trying to hurt your feelings you can go to step 4…
4 – well that’s not going to work because I’m not going to let that in.

and it’s all about letting it in, if you don’t let it inside of you, it can’t hurt.

Those steps came from Marissa Peer – check out her videos on YouTube!

Poppy