Abbie Chatfield

Yeah.

How can they support the women in their lives?

Because it sounds like your partner did such an amazing job and continues to do so.

Oh, yeah.

Fuck, yeah.

Let's not try and label it or anticipate it.

No.

No, I'll tell you when I'm luteal.

But look, you were right, but let's just leave it.

So I want to talk about the medical gaslighting and medical misogyny just quickly again that you've experienced or even that you've seen other people that have PMDD experience.

Can you give some examples of that?

Because it's so hard when it's menstrual related and mental health related.

Like, you know, the women are just getting called crazy.

It's like 1910s asylum shit.

Like when husbands used to commit their partners as asylums.

Holy fuck.

Or lack of erection, you know.

We're all obsessed with them getting in a fucking erection and no one cares about PMDD.

Let's talk about the actual book itself and the structure of the book, the way that you decided to write it.

You wrote it as a spiral, right, rather than kind of a story arc, which I absolutely love because I think a lot of memoirs want to have this like triumphant hero ending.