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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The Hook Up · What It’s Like To Have PMDD w/ Emma Hardy · 6 May 2026 podcast

The first one was supposed to be three months of just raw dogging at tracking my cycle.

I'd been on and off different types of birth control, like many people have since I was 15.

And so I didn't really know what my underlying cycle was.

And I hadn't had like an uninterrupted period where I could see

what my body was actually doing in that luteal phase.

And so I started that and my doctor was like, no, no, no, we need to get your medication straight away.

And I understand where she's coming from now because I do have it.

But I did really want to have like a more cooperative form of care when I was trying to understand my body and then choose the most effective treatment or choose

a treatment based on knowledge as opposed to guesswork.

And so I did those three months and then it was like super, super clear that I had it.

The most surprising part for me was actually that I was happy some of the time, like seeing like obviously I knew that I was having these dips, but seeing that like actually I was in a good bubbly mood most of the month was actually so surprising because it feels so overwhelming.

Yeah, so, well, my psychologist described it, and I think I described this way in the book as well, as being like childbirth, where the pain is so intense that your body can't really stop you from experiencing that, but it can instead kind of save you from remembering the wholeness of it.

So it's not like a complete forgetting, like I've woken up and I'm in a room covered in scratches like a werewolf or whatever.

It's not like that.

But it just feels like less...

forward it feels like almost like a shadow of what happened so I remember that I was like upset the night before when pushed I'll be like oh yeah that was like really bad but I actually struggled to even like empathize with what I was feeling at that time like my own like the extremities of my own feeling like I can't really muster up that same

tension in my body and then when I'm in that tension it's impossible to imagine not being that tense um I guess it's like possibly a metaphor for how we like definitely live in the present but yeah it's not like a total annihilation of memory but it is recalling it is not the same at all as experiencing it so you did the three months and then what was the plan from there

So then I wanted to try a form of birth control that had been approved in America for treatment of PMDD, which was very bad for me.

This was a pill called Yaz and I didn't know exactly how bad it would be, but it

really spiked my progesterone levels with hindsight and led to an episode, a quite intense episode of suicidal ideation quite suddenly.

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