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Florence Terry on ITV Tonight
Florence explains about how she came to realise that she had an anger management issue.
Transcript of video
Florence Terry
Anger Management
ITV1 TONIGHT
3rd November 2008
Voice over
And violent women can sometimes be those you least expect.
Florence Terry
There’s a common conception that angry women equals girl gangs, or angry women equals women getting drunk on a Friday night and brawling in the streets. But angry women means far more than that.
Voice over
Florence Terry is a solicitor in London. Fourteen years ago she realised her anger was a problem which was getting out of control.
Florence Terry
When I was first violent to my husband, it came out of nowhere and we were both shocked. And I was determined that it was never going to happen again. It never occurred to me that it would happen again. It was completely unacceptable.
After a couple of years I hit him again. It then became a pattern. It wasn’t a pattern happening all the time, but every few months I would lose my temper to the point of violence.
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Florence realised that she needed to do something about her rages and discovered there was help available from the British Association of Anger Management. So she enrolled herself on a course.
Florence Terry
There were people from all walks of life, and there were young and old, men and women. I was actually surprised at how many other women there were on the course.
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Florence found the programme extremely useful in overcoming her aggressive outbursts. She now helps others and teaches anger management classes herself.
Florence Terry
The people that I’ve had on groups, there’s a lot of women as well as being a lot of men. And they will be admitting to shouting and swearing at their loved ones, pulling hair, throwing things, and being violent to their children as well.
And I think that there’s a lot of violence in women that people don’t see, because it’s done behind closed doors and it’s done more subtly.
Voice over
The National Centre for Domestic Violence says that the number of male victims of female abuse that they deal with has more than doubled since 2006.
Florence Terry
I think that it’s really good that anger is now being talked about more in the media and that therefore people dare to say, `Actually I’ve got a problem.’
