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

Often, like when I'm in that place, it's really hard to advocate for myself and the systems at large are not advocating for me.

So it's a really tricky place to be in.

That's when we're kind of treated like an illness and not when we see a woman being angry.

That's like maybe that is part of it, but we're not treating it like that because we want to quiet her down.

We're treating it like an illness because she is distressed and she is in pain.

I kept on reading all of these medical studies about PMDD and all of them were done on rats in cages.

So they're like, they're trying these hormones on rats, different medication on rats, seeing their hormone levels, how they respond, how their mood responds.

And at the time I was in lockdown in Melbourne.

And instead of understanding the science behind these studies, I was just like, I feel like that rat.

Like, of course I'm acting crazy.

I'm stuck in a cage.

Like, why are we looking at these rats and saying that these rats are insane when they're like stuck in a cage?

Of course they're not going to do well on their swimming test.

Like, they're depressed.

They're like, they're stuck.

They're trapped.

And I don't think that was what I was meant to take away from the studies.

But that is where...

my kind of exploration took me or where my thinking about illness took me.

Like why do we think the ways that we think about illness?

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