Sara's feelings of rage at home and work led to her decision to see a psychologist.
Transcript
J’étais toujours en colère! J’étais enragée! Contre tout le monde, dont deux [personnes]… Une amie assez proche, puis mon patron. Mon patron, t’sais il est super sweet”, il est très accommodant, t’sais ce n’est pas le patron parfait, mais il est quand même… C’est quelqu’un avec qui je m’entends bien pareil. Puis là, il y a une fois où j’ai pété ma coche, je me suis fâchée noir pour une broutille finalement, ce n’était même pas important. Je ne me reconnaissais plus… J’étais tout le temps dans un état de rage complète. Puis je me disais : « Ça doit être les hormones. ». Mais c’était plus fort que ça. Fait qu’après m’être fâchée contre des gens que j’adore d’habitude, je me suis… T’sais ça a comme été progressif, puis là rendue au point où je me suis vraiment fâchée, puis j’ai… J’ai dépassé la limite, bien j’ai décidé d’aller consulter une psychologue parce que je me disais que c’était un peu étrange comme façon de réagir.
[I was always angry! I was furious! At everyone — including two people… A fairly close friend, and my boss. My boss, you know, he’s super sweet, he’s very accommodating — he’s not the perfect boss, but still… he’s someone I usually get along with really well. And then there was a time when I completely lost it, I got extremely angry over something trivial in the end — it wasn’t even important. I didn’t recognize myself anymore… I was constantly in a state of complete rage. And I kept telling myself, “It must be the hormones.” But it was stronger than that. So after getting angry at people I normally love, it was… it kind of built up progressively, and then when I really lost it and crossed the line, I decided to go see a psychologist because I told myself that it was a pretty strange way to be reacting.] Translation from the original French.
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