Nobody enjoys criticism. The difference lies in what comes afterwards. When the reaction belongs to a particular person or subject and passes within an hour, it is situational. When it fires just as hard at anything, is out of proportion to what was said, and lingers for half a day, you are not reacting to that sentence — you are reacting to something much older that the sentence merely opened.
Beliefs about ourselves form before we have words for them, and they work as a filter — criticism does not pass through as information but as confirmation of something a person has long “known” about themselves. That is why rational arguments do not help: they answer something other than what was actually set off.
The core beliefs questionnaire does not ask what happened, but what you believe about yourself — and where that most likely comes from. It shows which belief is strongest in you and what sets it off on an ordinary day.