Hey guys, welcome back to Previllance Podcast. This is Sarah and I'm with our favorite therapist, Whitney. Welcome Whitney.

Great friends. So Whitney, today's topic, we have talked about anger and rage in postpartisan, but we have

recently got some questions about anger and rage in pregnancy. Right. So there's a lot of reasons

this happens. One, you know, if it was an unplanned pregnancy, so you have kind of that shock or that

surprise factor going on. And, you know, with that can even be some grief. And we all know,

like kind of a subset of grief or a symptom of grief, if you will, is anger, frustration,

irritability, that lack of control feeling. So there could be some of that at play. Just, again,

that grief process that someone could be experiencing hormones, we cannot ignore that. And while I'm

not the biggest fan of blaming everything on your hormones, because I feel like that gets

scapegoated quite a bit.

Or women get gaslit with that sometimes.

We can't ignore like that rapid increase of progesterone and estrogen being hard for us to manage.

Yeah.

They talk about like crying over the cat food commercial when you're pregnant.

How could that be any different than like you stub your toe and all of a sudden you're screaming and cussing and you're like, that's not me.

It's kind of the same thing.

Those hormones are just at a much higher rate than what we are used to them being normally.

You're right.

The typical thing is like, well, you cry more or it's more sensitive, but it's like you are

physically changing so much to physical discomfort. I remember, especially in the third

trimester towards the end, physically to walk, to get up if you're chasing another child or

if you're demanding job, or even in the first trimester, right, where you can be so sick,

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