MOIRA dela Torre admitted that having polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) affected her songwriting process.
Dela Torre revealed that PCOS symptoms include brain fog, depression, and insomnia.
The symptoms she experienced gave her anxiety as she was not aware of her health condition back then.
“There are times when I’m not eating well. I get brain fog. Like there was one time I forgot my own dog’s name. But I knew his name and I just couldn’t say it. And it was just so frustrating that it gave me so much anxiety. Like ‘what is happening?’ I just couldn’t remember,” the 27-year-old singer recalled.
The “Paubaya” hit singer also shared how having PCOS prevented her from writing songs, when normally she can write a song in 15 minutes.
“Before the pandemic, I couldn’t even write. Having been able to write ‘Malaya’ in like 10 minutes or ‘Saglit’ in 15 minutes. So many songs that I get to write because my brain was good, my brain was healthy. And I was just writing down what I felt in like a really short amount of time,” dela Torre admitted.
Her struggles forced her to seek medical attention just before she got married to her husband Jason Marvin Hernandez.(ABS-CBN News)
