Emma Hardy

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It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield · EMMA HARDY: PMDD and the Myths of Monstrous Women · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

I want to move and then I would just lie there for hours and then still sleep through the night fine, like just extremely tired.

I would be really angry, like quite electric irritability if my partner did anything that was –

Well, it's really interesting because like one of the main symptoms of PMDD that I have is anger.

But there's so much to be righteously angry about when you have PMDD.

Yes.

So I was really grappling with this like, okay, I'm being told that I have this illness and that my anger is a symptom of this illness and that I am wrong for it.

yes but at the same time like don't I have so many reasons to be angry and maybe I shouldn't have to be perfect in my expression of this anger that are things I would still be angry about on a regular day I just might be more outsized in my expression of that anger I really really struggled with that because it's like on the one hand I want to be a good person I don't want to hurt people I don't want to be blowing up but on the other why can't

I be angry and yeah and what level of anger at what point is the threshold yeah where it's appropriate anger and useful anger through to this anger that's inappropriate and completely unacceptable impossible to know I found it so this is the goal the reason I started writing the book was kind of to figure that out was to be like when isn't my anger normal a normal response I was thinking of it in this way when is my anger a normal response to a pathological world or when am I pathological for having my anger and

That is the way that I was thinking about it and that is the question that I kind of led into this book trying to explore and unravel because there's so much like misogyny in just our world.

But when you're coming to medical systems and illnesses that predominantly affect women, there's so little understanding and research that we don't really know.

Yeah.

So my first diagnosis was in 2015 and I write about –

all of the different stages of thinking about this illness and the ways that I approach it in the book.

But my first diagnosis was in 2015.

It was at a bulk billing clinic in Melbourne.

He wanted me in and out in 15 minutes.

He kind of looked through the DSM.

What can I diagnose you with to get you to see a therapist?

You say that you feel like you keep coming back to this place.

It's like almost like you're stuck in a loop.

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