Why do women get depressed/emotional while taking the pill?!


Question: Why do women get depressed/emotional while taking the pill!?
Pill is taking in estrogen/progestin!. Why do these two hormones make us depressed!?Www@Answer-Health@Com


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Because of the hormones in it!. Hormones affect our mood and extra estrogen/progestin are the hormones that make us sensitive or moody!.!.!.what ever the case may be!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

You know, I think a great deal of it has very little to do with the hormones themselves, and a lot more to do with the effect women themselves attribute to them!. Our brains and our thinking are not entirely hormone driven, in fact they have very little influence!. Our behaviors are driven by factors a lot more complex than that!. If we were animals of a lower order, you might have more evidence- but the fact is we are thinking animals who control ourselves!. We are not controlled by our hormones!. We are not driven to mate and reproduce as they are!. In fact, very little of our behavior truly has a verifiable hormonal basis!. We may feel predisposed towards them, but the expression is still a matter of our control!. Neither estrogen nor progesterone have any affect on the brain, really!. They primarily affect the ovaries and uterus, by triggering ovulation and endometrial buildup!. That all happens at the opposite end from the brain!. If you are depressed, it more likely has other sources than the birth control pill, and will not be improved if you stop taking it either!. You would have a lot more arguement for weight gain or water retention, which are physical side effects- not emotional!. Humans are simply too complex to write off emotional responses as hormone driven!. Your question suggests you already believe that you are the sum total of your reproductive hormones!. So whether you take them in pill form, or rely on your body's production, it makes a nice tidy explanation for feeling depressed!. It's not correct, but it persists because some women would rather sign it off as hormones!. And as long as that misconception persists, women will find themselves sideline by men, because we are hormonally driven wrecks!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

have you heard the phrase that your hormones run amuk through your teen years and that's what causes puberty (you know, mood swings and such!?)!? well, imagine that you are introducing into your body hormone levels that your body aren't used to!. that's why!

the good news is that there are a bajillion different pills out there to take!. some are progestin based!. others are estrogen based!. still others are both!. I found that estrogen based pills (like estrostep FE) work best for me and that pills with both (like ortho cyclen) don't!. it depends on the girl!Www@Answer-Health@Com

normal!.!.!.some women may feel depressed by taking hormonal pills, esp during the first months!. it's one of the side effects of these pills!. let your body adjust to the hormonal change you have!.

if not tolerated, consider other methods depending on why you taking them!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

I know some a few doctors who actually prescibe antidepressants along with the birth control pills because of the depression it can cause!. I quit taking the pill because not only did it cause me to get depressed but it caused me to get very angry,Www@Answer-Health@Com

It didn't make me depressed, it made me overjoyed!. It's just the hormones, like PMS and things like that!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

because of your hormonesWww@Answer-Health@Com

well its not like that for all women but it certainly was for me! It just depends on the woman and how her hormones are!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

talk to your docter about switching to a diff pill
some pills just do that to some womenWww@Answer-Health@Com





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