Feeling depressed after stopping the birth control pills?

Kava , hmmm first time i hear of it. Sounds promising though let us know how it works for you?

I will! If heard really good reviews.
Just need something to get me through the next few months.
How are you doing at the moment ?

I hear you and its great that you looking for a natural method. The anxiety has been almost unnoticeable the last few days... i'm struggling with thoughts of hopelessness which i'm not liking one bit. it freaks me out that one minute I was loving love and exited for the future , and then woke up one morning and was like 'whats the point of life". its weird right so I can be doing well and having a goodtime with family and friends and then this thought of " whats the point to all of this " .... some days I can blow it off but other days it just goes round and round in my head. on the bright side thought its the last of the OCD thinking... the rest of the thoughts have pretty much been resolved or worn out.... does that makes sense?

I've had Kava before in Fiji but not for this. I see how it might help though. Although it's worth discussing how it might affect your liver as there are studies which suggest it can have negative effects but I don't know enough about it. Let us know how you get on!

That’s amazing news about the OCD thoughts.
They are the worst.
Are you still having anxiety ?
How long have you been off for?
I feel like my anxiety is directly related to the ocd thoughts even when they are not present if that makes sense

Yeah I think I’m going to give it a go
Maybe not long term usage though.
How are you feeling
How long have you been offf

I hope it helps you, let us know how you yet on! I am still up and down but feeling a little better than the past two weeks. I'm hoping I've got a good few days coming up, fingers crossed! I've been off since end of December now. First couple of months were absolute hell, and I think I've definitely improved since then. Hopefully the next couple of months will bring even more improvement.

its so much anxiety any more its more of a nervousness but yes its related to the obsessive thoughts , like my brain fixates on the negative. I don't really know what cause the anxiety , whether it was the thoughts or the anxiety that triggered the thoughts but either way it was horrible. I think its the thoughts though .... its like my brian is a stuck record playing the same old tune.... I wish it would just stop. I finished my last pill pack in august 2018 had a withdrawal bleed and just stayed off.... the first month was fine slight depression but I just wrote it off to my period being due as before the pill that was my std cycle, feeling down for no reason. that was September.... October the last few days of my period , that's when the first intrusive thought occurred, it was on a Friday evening and it freaked me out so badly but I tried to calm myself... By Monday I started feeling worse and I felt like id run into a brick wall and that was that... the following weeks were a nightmare.... by the satruday it was so bad I couldn't get out of bed. EVERYTHING made me panic. I told my hubby somethings very wrong with me but trying to explain to a rational person whats going on is not easy... especaily when you know what you experiecinging is not normal for you. The one person that totally understood me was my mom and a close friend who had both gone thorugh it. My mom went through it with menaopause so she's been such a great support. !!!!!

I hear you about the anxiety even when the thoughts aren't there,

so basically its been 6 months since symptoms started but each month gets better. the progress is a little slower now than in the beginning. in the beginning I noticed improvement every 2 weeks.... now most of the "crazy" has stopped.... its just the hopelessness now. Somedays Its so bade i wonder if it will ever stop... but it always does and then when the thoughts come I feel like I can get on top of them and wonder what all the fuss was about until it starts again... ive noticed that i'm good till my period starts, and then from day 5 for about 10 - 12 days it gets hard and then its gets better after that for the remaining 2 weeks before my period....

TIME and PATIENCE

If it started then it has to stop.... nothing lasts forever. its not always sunny and its not always rainy so at some point normality has to return....

Yes I agree definitely better then the first two months.
I have been off since jan but symptoms didn’t start until feb.
I never knew getting off birth control would be sooo bad!!
Can’t wait for the instrusive thoughts and anxiety to stop:)

Sounds like your on the mend though !!
Sometimes I wonder if these thoughts have stained my brain but a lot of girls say that in time they get over it and there fine.
I too have little breaks where I think why are you freaking out about that your not like that at all and other times it gets the best of me.
And now when I get a thought I just try and move on and get that big wave of anxiety but try to let it pass.

Yes i hear you but yes, definitely on the mend even though its SO SLOW!!!! Some days i'm strong and others are like treading water and some are just down right terrible. One day at a time.
I also have strange physical reactions, like the last two days I've been having low blood or sugare levels where i suddenly feel like I need to eat right then and there or ill past out.... that was one of the reasons i stopped BC. At least my heart rate has become more normal again.... it would race to 160 beats per minute for no reason while I'm stitting at my desk working....

I know it’s such a slow process when you living it everyday.
And every single day it feels like your just surviving not living.
You poor thing !
I get the really fast heart beat thing too sometimes when I’m at work as well.
What sort of work do you do?

I deal with claims for road accidents so its very easy work.... nothing to stress me out really. Anyway that has stopped the last 3 months or so....

That’s really good news.
I can’t wait to be where you are.
today I just feel so teary and anxious then it will go for a few minutes where i feel normal then start again.
What an emotional roller coaster !!

I hear you..... I had that kind of month this month. but its not anywhere as bad as it was... it gets better for sure. I'm starting to feel more stable again since the Tuesday afternoon..... 19 days to go before period.... its weird, I used to feel fabulous after my period before I started the pill around the last week before my next period.... it now seems to be the opposite ... lol

How are you feeling today ?