Idk. My birth control triggered treatment resistant depression. Possible it could have happened anyway, but I didn’t struggle with any mental health issues before that. We tried all different kinds of birth control. My doctor certainly didn’t warn me about the risks for any of them.
I wasn’t even trying to be safe for sex, I just had chronic pain. No pain meds ever offered. Just birth control suggested from early in my adolescence. When I finally eventually started birth control it didn’t fix my pain and I ended up leaving college and my life fell off the rails for years. Major depression is no joke.
sounds like you developed depression from medical malpractice and I’m really sorry your doctor was a raging misogynist.
I’m not denying that hormone blend couldn’t have made it worse, it just sounds like you’d have developed depression regardless because your chronic pain probably got worse because it went unaddressed and on top of that you also got blamed for it because of your uterus.
I believe being on birth control without informed consent is fucked up, which is maybe what the person above meant by “drugged”. what I thought they meant is comparing it to being on psychoactive substances which sounded silly to me.
childism and women being treated like children is a huge issue in medicine, and I’m sorry you didn’t get to assert your bodily autonomy.
Idk. My birth control triggered treatment resistant depression. Possible it could have happened anyway, but I didn’t struggle with any mental health issues before that. We tried all different kinds of birth control. My doctor certainly didn’t warn me about the risks for any of them.
I wasn’t even trying to be safe for sex, I just had chronic pain. No pain meds ever offered. Just birth control suggested from early in my adolescence. When I finally eventually started birth control it didn’t fix my pain and I ended up leaving college and my life fell off the rails for years. Major depression is no joke.
sounds like you developed depression from medical malpractice and I’m really sorry your doctor was a raging misogynist.
I’m not denying that hormone blend couldn’t have made it worse, it just sounds like you’d have developed depression regardless because your chronic pain probably got worse because it went unaddressed and on top of that you also got blamed for it because of your uterus.
I believe being on birth control without informed consent is fucked up, which is maybe what the person above meant by “drugged”. what I thought they meant is comparing it to being on psychoactive substances which sounded silly to me.
childism and women being treated like children is a huge issue in medicine, and I’m sorry you didn’t get to assert your bodily autonomy.