Emma Hardy

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You’re Gonna Want To Hear This · Emma Hardy: PMDD & The Truth About Female Rage · 3 Jun 2026 podcast

Why do we think the ways that we think about these studies?

Why do we expect that the rat is going to do what we as humans want it to do instead of its own rat agenda?

And maybe I wanted like a rat agenda for PMDD as well.

your life like do you make sure you exercise is sleep a priority how do you work with it i mean yeah we all have like i think every human has to do those things i've all like just like rats have to run to be happy we have to run and do all those things to be happy um but i also find it incredibly complicated because i think that is so deeply tied this idea of wellness um and like

Mental health tied to exercise, to all kinds of self-care can very quickly for women become codified as a beauty regime or a diet or connected to weight loss or a certain like aesthetic pursuit.

And I strongly do not think that those aesthetic pursuits make us happier and healthier.

PMDD brain can quickly latch on to those things and start to see yourself as like some kind of hideous monster and latch on to these cures in a way of like a special type of tea or exercise or diet as a way of controlling our bodies as opposed to it actually being curative.

So I'm really careful about, like obviously we're happier when we exercise, but I'm really careful about

positing that as the answer.

Like you are feeling like shit, your body's aching.

Yeah, you're in crisis.

It's like telling someone to do yoga when they're in crisis is ridiculous.

Yeah, PMDD will get you to sleep as well.

I can sleep a whole day and through the night.

It's exhausting.

Well, I felt like being a woman is a kind of horror, and I couldn't differentiate between what was the horrors of PMDD, of feeling like there's some monster that has taken over my body and is going to hurt me or destroy my relationships, whatever, and the horrors of being a woman and being told that you're supposed to be a certain shape, a certain size, speak in certain ways, not be too loud, all of these little micro, tiny little things happened.

that we inflict on ourselves.

I just couldn't, they all kind of started to blur together for me.

And this illness felt extremely gendered.

It felt like we were pathologizing female rage.

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