January 30, 2023

Is My Birth Control Making Me Crazy?

28 minutes

Content Warning: Mental health and suicide

What's going down:

An in-depth analysis of hormonal birth control usage in the United States

A close look at the limited data on hormonal birth control use in people who have previously been diagnosed with mental health struggles

Exposing whether starting hormonal birth control will jump-start mental health issues

Clitorally STOP making content based on studies that are dated and inaccurate - Find out why "they" call birth control the divorce pill here.

Breaking down why we even think birth control could affect our mental health

Understanding the difference between correlation and causation

The reason birth control can actually minimize anxiety and increase your mood

Revealing the most (surprisingly) popular form of birth control in the United States

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References

https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/contraceptive-method-use-united-states

https://www.mhanational.org/depression-women

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McCloskey LR, Wisner KL, Cattan MK, Betcher HK, Stika CS, Kiley JW. Contraception for Women With Psychiatric Disorders. Am J Psychiatry. 2021 Mar 1;178(3):247-255. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.20020154. Epub 2020 Nov 10. PMID: 33167674.

https://ideas.ted.com/how-the-birth-control-pill-affects-your-mood/

Mu E, Kulkarni J. Hormonal contraception and mood disorders. Aust Prescr. 2022 Jun;45(3):75-79. doi: 10.18773/austprescr.2022.025. Epub 2022 Jun 1. Erratum in: Aust Prescr. 2022 Aug;45(4):147. PMID: 35755988; PMCID: PMC9218393.

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Jones, B. C., Hahn, A. C., Fisher, C. I., Wang, H., Kandrik, M., Han, C., Fasolt, V., Morrison, D., Lee, A. J., Holzleitner, I. J., O’Shea, K. J., Roberts, S. C., Little, A. C., & DeBruine, L. M. (2018). No Compelling Evidence that Preferences for Facial Masculinity Track Changes in Women’s Hormonal Status. Psychological Science, 29(6), 996–1005. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797618760197

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