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A study analyzing data on over 1 million women has found an association between hormonal birth control and use/prescription of antidepressants:
"Today in vindication," wrote a woman on Twitter on Tuesday, summarizing the way many have received a striking new study [DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2016.2387] [DX] that found those who use birth control — especially teenage girls — may be at a significantly higher risk of experiencing depression. The research, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, has been heralded as groundbreaking for its depth and breadth, even if it seems to only confirm what some women say they've been feeling for years — that their hormonal contraceptives make them sad.
Women who used the combined birth control pill, a mix of estrogen and progestin, were 23 percent more likely to be prescribed anti-depressants than nonusers, and progestin-only pills raised the likelihood by 34 percent. With the patch, antidepressant use doubled; risk increased by 60 percent for vaginal rings and 40 percent for hormonal IUDs. And for teens age 15 to 19 taking combined oral contraceptives, the use of anti-depressants spiked 80 percent. Although those percentages may seem shocking, the absolute change is a small but significant spike. Among women who did not use hormonal birth control, an average of 1.7 out of 100 began taking anti-depressants in a given year. That rate increased to 2.2 out of 100 if the women took birth control.
It's the first study to conclude there might be a link between birth control and depression, author Øjvind Lidegaard told The Washington Post. Mood swings are often listed as a known side effect, but not clinical depression.
Also at The Guardian and CBC.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @09:04AM
Happy homosexual women don't need antidepressants, birth control, or men.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday October 06 2016, @11:11AM
Lesbians aren't happy. ~35% of them are physically abused by their partner1. Now my leet 2-1 skillz tell me this also means a similar percentage must be physically abusive, so it looks like almost 3/4 of lesbians are either abusive cunts or getting the shit kicked out of them. Or both. I suppose there's probably some overlap or repeat offenders. So, maybe only 2/3 or even only 1/2 of them are not queefing rainbows. That still makes them a pretty fucking unhappy demographic.
1 http://www.advocate.com/crime/2014/09/04/2-studies-prove-domestic-violence-lgbt-issue [advocate.com]
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @12:45PM
> Now my leet 2-1 skillz tell me this also means a similar percentage must be physically abusive,
From the source you provided:
The National Violence Against Women survey found that 21.5 percent of men and 35.4 percent of women living with a same-sex partner experienced intimate-partner physical violence in their lifetimes,
So no, it does not mean that at all. But thanks for demonstrating that not only are you socially inept, you are also innumerate.
(Score: 3, Informative) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday October 06 2016, @01:35PM
NCADV [ncadv.org] to the rescue! See here, pp. 2 [cdc.gov]:
More than 1 in 3 women (35.6%) and more than 1 in 4 men (28.5%) in the United States have experienced rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime.
Also see pp. 38, tables 4.1 and 4.2 if you want to drill down and just look at physical violence (also has lifetime vs. 12 month figures but does not include sexual orientation) which gives 32.9% for women and 28.2% for men in a lifetime.
Huh. So, let's look at Buzzard's link, which cites a newer version of the study I linked:
The CDC’s 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, released again in 2013 with new analysis, reports in its first-ever study focusing on victimization by sexual orientation that the lifetime prevalence of rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner was 43.8 percent for lesbians, 61.1 percent for bisexual women, and 35 percent for heterosexual women, while it was 26 percent for gay men, 37.3 percent for bisexual men, and 29 percent for heterosexual men (this study did not include gender identity or expression).
Ranking: Bi women > lesbians > bi men > hetero women > hetero men > gay men.
Also right before that, where Buzzard got his number:
The National Violence Against Women survey found that 21.5 percent of men and 35.4 percent of women living with a same-sex partner experienced intimate-partner physical violence in their lifetimes, compared with 7.1 percent and 20.4 percent for men and women, respectively, with a history of only opposite-sex cohabitation.
So we've got two different studies going on here with some different numbers they're throwing our way. I'm also concerned about bisexual erasure in the NVAW study. According to The Advocate's wording, they may have lumped all women currently living with a same-sex partner in the “lesbian” box whether that was appropriate or not. However, comparing the 2010 CDC numbers to the 2013 numbers cited by The Advocate, the trend seems to be consistent (lifetime rape, physical violence, and stalking 35.6% all women in 2010 vs. 43.8% lesbians only in 2013).
My take on it: what this means is! Radfems and Dianists need to take the plank out of their own eye before they attempt to remove the splinter from the rest of “all men” (including trans women, because that's how they roll)'s eye.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @02:16PM
Let's bold all those who partner with women:
There's a strong bias to the violent side here.
Let's bold all those who are women:
There's a bias to the violent side here, too.
Also this partitioning reveals: For each sex individually, the lowest risk is in partnering with men, partnering with women gives a higher risk, and partnering with both gives the highest risk. However for each selection of partner individually, women are more at risk than men.
Note, however that there is not a clear trend homo vs. hetero; the only orientation that matters seems to be bi. Otherwise, the general rule seems to be: The more women in the relationship, the more violence.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @08:47PM
But where does these studies get there numbers? Whether participant reported or police data or almost anywhere it seems like there's going to be strong self selecting biases. I believe, but don't have numbers to back it up, that men are going to be far less likely to report being victims of violence. So don't read too much into AC's above.