I've been on birth control since I was 16 and I am now 23. Last month I switched from Apri to ortho tri cyclen lo and a week before my period I started experiencing anxiety and I felt a little depressed. I didn't know what was going on as I had never experienced feelings like that before. I decided to look up reviews for that birth control and many people said they experienced depression and anxiety while being on it. I called my doctor and she said the anxiety is probably from switching but if I give it a couple of months for my body to get used to it I should be fine. Knowing it was the birth control I decided to stop because I have been wanting to. I felt like I was getting better and then a couple of days after I should have started a new pack I felt worse. I started having heart palpitations, I felt gloomy/depressed, i started questioning and doubting things in my life that made me so happy before, just not my normal self at all. I also had no appetite for a week and I lost 5 lbs. I was scared but my friends mom who is a nurse told me that I'm probably going through withdrawels because my body was so use to getting hormones every day for the past 7 years. I ended up going to my primary and OBGYN to settle my nerves, but unfortunately they told me going off the pill won't affect you, and it should be out of my system. I started questioning myself thinking I am crazy and something has to be wrong. I came across this site and it made me feel so much better. It makes sense that your body would go into shock after you have been on a hormone pill for years. I don't understand why the doctors can't confirm this. I am going to look into seeing a endocrinologist to get my hormone levels tested. I am hoping that coming off birth control is the reason I am going through this. It would be pretty ironic not to be since so many other women seem to feel the same way I do! The doctors told me not to believe what I read on the Internet, but this is the only thing that's keeping me sane. Good luck to everyone!