Age-gaps in dating, Women and Epilepsy and How to Build Resilience
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Experts in epilepsy say women are disproportionately affected by the condition. Around 300,000 women have it in the UK. Epilepsy Research UK say that hormones can affect epilepsy, and drugs used to control it need to be very carefully balanced with medication that women take like The Pill or HRT. Women with epilepsy are also ten times more likely to die in pregnancy. Dr Susan Duncan is a consultant neurologist. Torie, 30 and Ruth, 60 both have it.
Dating apps have changed how you can meet a potential partner and you can choose exactly what you like as all the information about sexuality, age, background and sexual preferences are laid out. Our reporter Henrietta Harrison, in her forties, recently joined a dating app and was inundated with messages from men in their twenties but felt uneasy about some of the approaches. It seems the ‘older woman with a younger man’ dynamic is growing in popularity on dating apps and it has long been popular in porn. She wanted to understand more about the attraction between younger men and older women. Henrietta spoke to 28 year old man we are calling Richard who is in a polyamorous relationship and regularly dates women in their forties and fifties.
What is resilience? Is it something we are born with, or do our life experiences help to shape it? And does failure help us to build it? Jane discusses the issues with the writer and podcaster Elizabeth Day, author of Failosophy A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong, with the Psychologist, Emma Kenny and the Paralympian and motivational speaker Martine Wright MBE.
Producer: Henrietta Harrison Editor: Karen Dalziel
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| 0:41.0 | Hi this is Jane Garvey and welcome to the Woman's Our podcast. podcasts. Today we talk about resilience can you acquire it does failure help you to build it |
| 0:55.6 | I think there's no doubt that at the moment all of us are having to dig into our |
| 0:59.5 | reserves of something or other it might be resilience. We've got some really good |
| 1:04.2 | guests on this subject this morning actually. Martin Wright who survived the |
| 1:08.4 | 7-7 terrorist attack, that's Martin Wright MBE actually, motivational speaker and Paralympian. We also have the |
| 1:15.6 | psychologist Emma Kenny and the writer and podcaster Elizabeth Day so plenty of people |
| 1:21.5 | involved in that but I'd love your thoughts on it too. |
| 1:24.0 | Social media at BBC Woman's Hour is where we're at. |
| 1:28.0 | We're starting though at this morning with a conversation about women and epilepsy and I was I felt this was particularly important to do |
| 1:35.6 | especially in the light of the Cumberledge review which came out in July and drew |
| 1:41.2 | attention to the sometimes catastrophic effects of three different |
| 1:45.2 | medical treatments given to women, the oral pregnancy test primidose, pelvic mesh |
| 1:50.7 | and the anti-epilepsy drug sodium valparate. |
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