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

And so I was looking for examples of female rage in other contexts.

Like who are these angry women?

If we're looking at PMDD and I'm feeling really angry, what examples of this can I see?

And all of those examples were monsters.

I couldn't really find many examples of angry women that weren't coded in some way with the grotesque, which I thought was very interesting.

And that's...

What I wanted to explore as well is why is our anger so grotesque when it could also be powerful?

I've heard so many women say that as well.

They felt out of control, monstrous, and that they feared what they might do.

Those were kind of the three things that I saw over and over again, which I just thought was so, it sounds like a possession, doesn't it?

It does.

I would love for them to really seriously, them being the medical industry, really seriously look into medications to treat

as treatment for PMDD because I feel like a lot of the medications that you're on or that I'm on, it's kind of like a happy consequence that it works for PMDD but it's not actually targeting those neurosteroids in the same ways or it's not, they don't actually necessarily work as well as they could and they have side effects that might not be necessary if they put more research into this.

Well, I found that like – so I saw a psychologist who specialised in PMDD and a lot of the exercises that she did with me were largely around sitting with discomfort, which at the time I had a real reaction to because I was kind of like, well, aren't we taught to just sit with discomfort and not speak up, all of these things?

Yeah.

but I feel like it was a really helpful skill because one of the things you might notice with PMDD as well is that you might be righteously angry about something but you're not in a space where you can articulate it without feeling like you're going to make a fool out of yourself or you're going to overreact and then you're not going to be taken seriously you're going to be viewed as hysterical but you actually have a point but you can't articulate it in a way that doesn't make you look hysterical.

If you start crying while you're trying to articulate your point like it's just a

It's ridiculous.

Yeah.

And so this sitting with discomfort, I think, gave me more skills to be able to advocate for myself and still be able to speak up.

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