Gemma Spike
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15,259 appearances
32 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
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Gemma Spike’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A study from 2020 showed that autoimmune diseases disproportionately affect women in around 80% of cases, 8, 0.
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And they often emerge after periods of significant stress and self-silencing.
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A good example of this is traumatic pregnancies.
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or things where they've at times when they've experienced healthcare trauma.
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There's a health psychologist named Dr.
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Sula Winskison and she's looked into this more specifically and she's looked into the impact of suppressing our emotions upon our bodies more specifically.
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And she notes that
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Suppression is one of the most depleting cognitive responses.
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It activates these higher order brain regions like the prefrontal cortex, which decrease activation in self-emotion processing centers like the amygdala.
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This leads to increased cortisol secretion, it in it leads to increased adrenaline, and that can all disrupt immune system functioning, hence the rise of autoimmune diseases.
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There's still so much research that is ongoing on in this space.
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so much like that it's probably gonna come out in the next couple of years, but I find it so shocking.
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That being a good girl looks so neat and tidy from the outside and looks so pretty, but it is wrecking our bodies from the inside out, all for the comfort and peace of others.
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Beyond the f the physical impact, the psychological impact, the immune system impact.
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There is also a professional cost and a financial cost, a literal monetary cost to being a good girl.
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One of the most significant costs of this complex is that being liked sometimes seems incompatible with taking up space, and taking up space is often required.
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In this society.
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To get ahead, to increase your surface area for luck, and to access opportunities.
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If you are constantly trying not to inconvenience anyone, there is a lot of things that you won't do.
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you won't pitch the idea, you won't ask for a raise, you probably won't take credit for your own work, you probably won't call out bad behavior, you probably won't apply for jobs that you maybe don't think that you're qualified for.
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