# Transcript

Lakshmi
I dreaded the meeting that Angelique had arranged for days. I also felt she was getting at me and could feel myself getting angrier and angrier just before I went in. It was so strange how my feeling changes when I got in there – I had been feeling that Angelique had seemed so distant and out of reach recently but the way she spoke to me showed that she really cared and that she was trying to find a way to help me cope and manage my time. It felt like she was there for me.
It was then that the floodgates opened. I could not stop crying and I told her all about my husband’s redundancy, my son’s problems at school, my constant feeling of panic, and how isolated I felt at work when I used to love it. I told Angelique how I felt totally inadequate when I had to go home at the end of the day to support my family and she was always staying late, and never seemed to stop. I just didn’t have the energy for that.