So much contemporary drama seems to be about men who are either emotionally repressed or losing it completely.
If you're losing it don't try and hide it!
Deidre felt the sense of losing it again.
When he finished the chores, he swallowed three aspirins and went outside to shovel the accumulating snow, hoping further activity might dissipate the anger he felt, not only at Shipton, but at himself for losing it in so public and childish manner.
The last thing he needed was Connor losing it from too much human scent his first time out.