Here Vicky Spratt, deputy editor of The Debrief, describes years of depression, anxiety and panic as she tried one version of the pill after another.I sat in the GP's office with my mum and told her that I'd been having my period for three weeks. They're in every handbag I own, a safety net should I fall off the enormous cliff of my own mind again. Prof Helen Stokes-Lampard, Chair of the Royal College of GPs, says: "There is an established link between hormones and mood, both positive and negative, but for the vast majority of women, the benefits of reliable contraception and regulation of their menstrual cycle outweigh any side effects, and many women report that taking hormones actually boosts their mood. Millions of women have no problem with the pill but some find it shatters their mental health. Depression, Mood and Affect ; Oral Contraception Use on Mood and Affect ; Risk Factors ; How Oral Contraceptives Affect Mood and Affect ; Written by Mary Lehrman, Ph.D. The Debrief carried out an investigation, surveying 1,022 readers, aged 18-30 I wish, wholeheartedly, that I could look back on this and laugh. In the past years I have tried troches, injections, creams, and ended with oral Prometrium (I have used up to 300mg. I blamed myself. "Depression is listed as a known but rare side effect of the hormonal contraceptive pill, it's there in the small but hefty leaflet you get in the packet. I felt joy again, my libido returned and I stopped feeling terrified of absolutely everything and everyone. The research found that being on the mini pill increases the risk of depression.

Prometrium and anxiety. To this day, I still carry them with me. As women age, that link gets weaker, but adult women who use the pill are still 1.2 times more likely to be on antidepressants.The research excluded women who had a history of mental illness.
I have taken prometrium (bioidentical progesterone) for years.. maybe 12 years or more. I explained to her that I had felt awful on every single one of the six or seven pills I'd taken up until that point, with the exception of one high-oestrogen combined pill which made me feel like superwoman for a year, before it was taken away from me (partly because of the migraines and partly because of an increased risk of thrombosis with continued use). I remember the look on her face, an attempt to look blank which barely concealed a desire to tell me I was ridiculous. I feel low from time to time, anxious and stressed but it's nowhere near on the same scale as what I experienced while taking the progestogen-only pill. So assumed that wasn’t the problem I had with anxiety.

I didn't recognise myself, I didn't like myself and I couldn't live my life. This is where it all began, 14 years ago. Adolescent girls who use the mini pill are 2.2 times more likely to be on antidepressants, and adult women are 1.3 times more likely. I decided to try Lo Estrin birth control pill and to my great surprise my mood was better.

That increased to a 2.2-times higher risk with progestin-only pills. It use to work great but the last 2-5 years I find not so much. Holly Grigg Spall's book, Sweetening The Pill, published in 2013, put the effects of hormonal contraception on women's mental health firmly on the agenda.Since then a study, overseen by Prof Ojvind Lidegaard at the University of Copenhagen, found that women taking the pill - either the combined pill or the progestogen-only pill - were more likely to be prescribed an antidepressant than those not on hormonal contraception. We can't make informed choices without information. "We were following women who, from the beginning, were mentally healthy," Dr Lidegaard told "We can see that, especially with young women, there is a significantly increased risk of developing depression after starting up on hormone contraception," he said. It was around this time that I also developed anxiety, depression and serious mood swings which, on and off, have affected me throughout my adult life.Relationships have ended and I had to take a year out from university - I thought that was just "who I was", a person ill-equipped for life, lacking self-confidence and unhappy. My prescription was printed in reception. After three or four weeks I also stopped taking the beta blockers. These are external links and will open in a new windowMillions of women rely on the contraceptive pill and many are happy with it - but some find it has a devastating effect on their mental health. The use of birth control pills, oral contraceptives, to help prevent pregnancy is widespread.
"I think that perhaps we have been a little uncritical in our prescription of these [adolescent] women who are the most sensitive women, concerning the development of depression with hormone contraception," Dr Lidegaard said. Instead, I was prescribed a high dose of beta blockers, used to treat anxiety, and it was recommended that I should undergo cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).I lived like this for somewhere between six and eight months - I can't tell you exactly because that year of my life is a blur, recorded by my mind in fast-forward because of the constant sense of urgency and impending doom that coursed through my veins.

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