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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @04:24PM
*facepalm*
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @09:07PM
*facepalm*
You can scoff all you want, but the day is coming when you and that thing between your legs will be obsolete.
Thank goodness for science. Pretty soon, we'll just create our own XX embryos and won't have to worry about getting raped any more. [wordpress.com].
Your days are numbered, asshole!
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday October 07 2016, @02:42AM
*facepalm again!*
If my wife thought I was raping her in any way, she'd let me know ,Bobbit style. When we were younger, she'd often be the one on top and in control,: she could have climbed off and walked away. Instead, she got her pleasure as I got mine: again, she could have done it manually... instead, she went with the "rape" option and rode me as she liked.
Not all men are asses, just as not all women are...... well.... INSANE?!?!?
Get off it. Or get on it. Whatever.
I'm guessing you had a man severely hurt you. "Men" don't do those things. Only small boys/assholes. Don't confuse them with men.
And don't confuse your above response with"woman". That was not an adult response.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @08:07AM
PIV (Penis In Vagina) intercourse is rape. Always. [wordpress.com]
One of my fellow travelers explained this quite clearly. I link to it above, but I'll excerpt it here for you because you clearly don't get it. By engaging in PIV, you are traumatizing your abused slave ^W^W wife [wordpress.com] and she is suffering from Stockholm Syndrome and PTSD. This is reinforced every time you rape [wordpress.com] her.
. Here's what you should (but refuse to accept!) understand::
Not only do you and your evil kind routinely torture and abuse us, it's so ingrained in this patriarchal society that you think you're actually a pretty decent person. Well I'm here to tell you that you're not. You're a torturer, and along with the rest of you animals, you're destroying the planet while you torture and rape us to force our capitulation to the hellish world you've created.
No more, I say. No more.