Midlife women feel like screaming
And I know why
There’s a scene in Fleishman Is In Trouble (Disney+ UK, Hulu US), where Rachel (played by Claire Danes), too tense for massage, aromatherapy, a facial or anything remotely touchy feely, is persuaded to try scream therapy. To begin with she's blocked. She quite literally has no voice, the one she once had having been silenced over years of keeping it in. So much so she can barely let out a squeak. But once the scream breaks forth and she starts, she can’t stop. She screams out her exhaustion and her frustration. She screams for her fortysomething self, exhausted from endless 18-hour days spent trying to bail the Atlantic with a sieve. She screams for her younger self, who lost the capacity for joy in the face of an e…