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

And so it was a very terrifying episode, so to speak.

And

When I was writing the book and I was coming back to that time and I was seeing the kind of coolness with which I approached this decision, I was so terrified.

It was just this reckoning of like how close I came to...

hurting myself in ways that I am so so grateful I didn't and yeah I could not have imagined at that point that I would be so glad that I didn't it just it felt like I was going to keep coming back to this spiral there was no way out I was stuck and this is why I think that that arc narrative is

is really unhelpful because I saw that there was no pathway to getting better.

So the only pathway to an ending was death.

And that is not true.

There are many more ways to live.

And there are many ways to live with an illness as well.

That, yeah, I'm really, really glad I did.

And it was a really scary and shocking thing to come back to you.

are and because you don't have a certain amount of sick days you know well i was also thinking at the time like how do i my my workplace was like well we could maybe have you do extra hours on the days when you're um when you're good and then you can like take more time off when you're not good and i was like that sounds great except for the fact that then all of my good days i'm just working

And then all of my bad days is my time off.

And then when do I get to live?

Yes, we need to enjoy and have a nice day.

And I just kind of think that like, I mean, also when do I then have the time to write?

Because I was doing this job to support my writing career as well because there's not that much money in the arts.

Yes.

And so I was like, then I would be giving up.

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