A flurry of headlines and social media conversations was sparked by last week’s broadcast of Davina McCall’s Pill Revolution, a documentary I made with her for Channel 4. This was not merely because Davina courageously got her hormonal coil changed live on telly, but because it resulted in an outpouring of women talking about the deleterious effect of hormonal contraception on their mental health – and their libido. Often over years.
Yet success in highlighting this conversation comes, once again, from my own failure – failure to see what was right in front of me. I pitched and produced two menopause documentaries with Davina after my own car crash of a menopause, when I couldn’t find information to explain the hell that was happening to me: heart palpitations, rampant anxiety, memory loss and general madness.
