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If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic.
Sleep deprivation impairs everything from your motor skills to your reaction time.
By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signaled that everything is on the table.
When you're a teenager, your essence is so specific to being a teenager, and everything becomes so extreme. Your emotions are on the surface, and you oscillate between different things at one time.
What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.
I had a lot of times with Wales as well when we were getting beat - and beaten well - and you learn to deal with it. You learn that next time it happens, you roll your sleeves up and give everything for the team.