Emma Hardy

I mean, I'm quite short.

I feel them quite intensely.

And so like Prozac was really intense for me when I was taking it all the time.

But yeah, there's like not really a better option.

And like, I don't know, you don't want your sex life to go out the window.

But yeah, so no, it's like, that is what I'm doing.

It's not perfect.

I wish I could have a better, happier story.

Yeah, there's just like, there's not funding.

There's not a good treatment plan.

So I guess I'd make it work, but it's not perfect by any means.

I never wanted to write this book necessarily.

I definitely wrote all the way through the whole experience because I do my morning pages, I write stream of consciousness.

So I had like records of that whole entire time.

It was more all the ideas surrounding

that interested me so like the idea of when do we ignore women's pain when does a woman's pain become a pathology or is it our society that's kind of a pathology of its own these ideas really interested me

And then as I was researching it more, I found that it was really hard for me to actually find the experience in all the writing that I was reading.

I could find medical texts, I could find institutional texts, I could find police reports, psychiatric reports, I could find all of that.

But I couldn't find the women on the page.

I couldn't find their stories.