Emma Hardy

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1,077 appearances 4 recordings 3 series first heard May 2026 last heard 4 Jun

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

Maybe it's PMDD.

We'll go with that.

Get out of here.

And I was just kind of like, it feels right, but also that can't be right.

Like this old man diagnosing me in like 15 minutes, not really thoughtfully.

There's all this diagnostic criteria you're supposed to go through.

You're supposed to track your symptoms, et cetera.

He didn't really do that.

And then I was also on birth control.

So the idea of knowing what my underlying cycle was actually like felt inaccessible to me.

So I was really struggling with,

Oh, and then when I Google PMDD at that point in time, everything that came up was, is it real or is it not?

So I was just there like, I don't know, is this just misogyny?

Is he just saying maybe you're a bit irrational and a bit sad because of your period?

Yeah.

Without actually the care and thought that goes into actually knowing what PMDD is, thinking about it deeply and diagnosing someone properly.

So that was my first diagnosis, which set me off on this kind of spiral of, I don't know if this is real or not.

yeah and then from there how did you then get a proper diagnosis that you sat better with okay well for starters i'm not like a perfect patient so i probably didn't do what the fuck is what do you mean perfect patient oh my god i also wanted i mean also wanted to write a book from the perspective of someone who probably doesn't get the care in the time that they should have despite having the privilege to have been able to

Totally.

And the other thing with PMDD is that

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