YOU SAID:
You've been talking down on yourself
INTO JAPANESE
あなたは自分自身を卑下して話してきました
BACK INTO ENGLISH
you've talked down to yourself
INTO JAPANESE
あなたは自分自身に言い聞かせました
BACK INTO ENGLISH
you told yourself
INTO JAPANESE
あなたは自分自身に言いました
BACK INTO ENGLISH
you said to yourself
INTO JAPANESE
あなたは自分自身に言いました
BACK INTO ENGLISH
you said to yourself
That didn't even make that much sense in English.