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Roles – controlling emotion [ Back to Health and Social Consequences ]A respondent suggests that he needed to help others ‘control’ their emotions: Normally you go out on a farm and you have a laugh and a joke, you value the stock for them and you do your job professionally. This was different; this was trying to keep the farmers upright, trying to stop them from bursting into tears, or to control it if they did burst into tears. I had times when I had farmers in tears, vets in tears, and slaughter men in tears, and that"s bloody hard to know what to do. He describes his own way of dealing with this: I felt it was very important that I should never be seen to be upset. The only times that I did get upset [. . .] some week old lambs were taken off the moors to be injected through the heart, and that got me, and so I made the excuse that I had to go and do some totting up, and I walked away about 60 yards or so, looked over the fence, composed myself. And I"ve got to say there"s been a couple of times when I"ve come home late at night sat in a chair and had a good blub, it actually makes you feel a slight bit better. (Agricultural related, interview, 2002) [ Back to Health and Social Consequences ]
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