Emma Hardy
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1,077 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 4 Jun
Emma Hardy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And he's like, oh, maybe it's this thing, PMDD.
And I just think this is the most sexist thing ever that he's diagnosed me with this.
He hasn't asked me any questions.
He hasn't really diagnosed me.
He just said it's probably related.
If it's like cyclical coming back, it's probably related to this.
So I kind of got that diagnosis.
It felt kind of true, but I didn't really believe it just because it seemed so unlikely that he could be right by diagnosing me so flippantly.
And so it wasn't until 2020 when things got really bad and obviously the kind of pressure cooker of COVID made my symptoms completely unbearable that I started going through a proper diagnostic process, which the book kind of traces.
So that was probably five years later that I realized, yeah, this is actually definitely it.
Bizarrely, he was right, like ridiculous to think that, but he was right.
Well, I think obviously COVID impacted everyone's mental health.
Like I didn't have a friend who was doing their best or thriving during that time.
But for me, it made that cycle even clearer.
And also because you're so pressure cooked in with other people, you're surrounded by other people, your housemates are always home, your partner's always home.
That they're seeing you nonstop.
There's no time for you to kind of step away and maybe self-regulate or even just like put on a different mask.
Like I actually thought about the fact that going to work, leaving the house, doing all these different or taking all these different roles throughout my day actually allows me to put on a different mask and pretend differently.
to cope.
I know often people talk about masking as a really negative thing when we're talking about illness, that it's a forceful thing.
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