Lyse finds herself crying for no reason other than fatigue.
Transcript
Il y a des journées aussi que quand je suis trop fatiguée, je le sens, parce que je me mets à pleurer pour rien. C’est ça, je vais penser à quelque chose puis là je me mets à pleurer ou je vais parler avec mon conjoint, puis à un moment donné je pleure. Pourquoi? Même je l’ai fait, c’est arrivé une couple de fois, chez le docteur, puis eux autres bien là, ils pensent que j’ai des idées suicidaires parce que je pleure. Ou une dépression. J’ai dit : «Non je n’ai aucun de ces deux-là, sauf que je suis fatiguée, puis moi bien quand je suis fatiguée, bien je braille pour un rien», fait que c’est ça.
[There are also days when I’m too tired, I can feel it, because I start crying for nothing. That’s it, I’ll think about something and then start crying, or I’ll talk to my partner, and then at some point I start crying. Why do I cry? I’ve even done it, it’s happened a couple of times, at the doctor’s, and then they think I’m having suicidal thoughts because I’m crying. Or depression. I said, “No, I don’t have either of those, except that I’m tired, and when I’m tired, I bawl my eyes out over nothing.”] Translation from the original French.
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