Emma Hardy

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You’re Gonna Want To Hear This · Emma Hardy: PMDD & The Truth About Female Rage · 3 Jun 2026 podcast

Left me clear on the fact that I don't think there is a singular answer to that.

I think that we are really good at pathologizing women's real pain.

Like if we see an angry woman, we're quick to like say that that's a disorder or that she's crazy or there's something wrong with her.

And we're also really quick to dismiss women's complaints.

When we do have something wrong with us, so PMDD is like really under-researched, under-recognized, under-diagnosed.

Women are saying, I feel crazy, and doctors are saying that's just a normal kind of part of your menstrual cycle, whatever.

And I think that there's no one singular answer between what is a mood and what is a disorder, especially with an illness like PMDD that really amplifies what's already at a baseline.

So it's not just – I mean, sometimes you'll be depressed and feel grief that seems related to absolutely nothing.

But anything that sparks up that might make you a little bit irritated during your regular day will just suddenly be a 10.

And so that dish left out overnight –

it feels like the end of the world.

Whereas previously it would just be like, oh, you really don't like help me as much as you should.

But both of those things are annoying or upsetting.

It's just really heightens that mood.

So I don't think that there is ever going to be a clear line between what is just a mood and when it becomes a disorder.

But I think understanding, the book helped me understand how we think about those two things.

Yeah.

And I mean, I think when I think about PMDD as an illness, and I still think that there's so little that we know about it, I think the main reason it becomes an illness is because of the impact that it has on people's lives.

And so I think we have to be careful about recognizing that that impact is largely women being really distressed and being in emotional distress and in really vulnerable places.

And they're not

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