Hannah McElhinney

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You’re Gonna Want To Hear This · Health Anxiety, Chronic Illness and Online Misinformation Cost One Woman Her Life · 17 Jun 2026 podcast

I hear the frustrations of a lot of people, a lot of women in particular, that have been told, you know,

oh, you've got this pain or this fatigue, go see a psychologist or go see a psychiatrist.

How invalidating that is given the decades of female hysteria and this idea that women make things up and we're kind of crazy and it's all in our heads.

That's so frustrating.

But at the same time, if you are struggling with the impacts of awful, awful symptoms every day, there is no way your mental health is going to be fine.

We know that one of the doctors I speak to in the book, the rheumatologist, she says the reality is with these pain conditions, mental health, you know, stress and anxiety is like pouring kerosene on a fire.

How do we get to a point where if you are presenting with pain, you do get mental health support, not because you're making it up, not because it's not real, but because you're

you're in pain, both mental and physical.

Yeah, I think with conditions like endometriosis, not only are they kind of invisible and it plays into this idea of women when – like this idea of women –

bleeding and then that being a reason for them to be crazy rather than understanding what happens, you know, in female bodies.

I think that can also lead people to think, okay, just calm down.

You're on the bathroom floor.

I just, this is, you know, I do think that we dismiss a lot of that because of the narratives that we've absorbed through culture.

And then there's that thing that if somebody with endometriosis,

is in crippling agony and then you know they feel a bit better and then the next month it's the same thing people start to think oh this again rather than of course it's going to happen every month how can as a society we support you

If there's somebody in your life that is suffering from a mysterious or chronic illness and going down a dark path, stay quiet.

connected to them listen to them validate them and that's the first step uh to ensuring they don't walk off in the dark really you know my auntie tried really hard to do these things but it's it's takes a lot of people to kind of see someone

I think that's the thing.

She was extremely headstrong.

And one of the greatest, I guess, comforts that my family get is that

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