Feeling depressed after stopping the birth control pills?

CaiteOc over a year ago

I'm actually in the process of writing a blog about coming off the pill. I realize that no ones really talked about what their recovery was like on a weekly basis, so I figured I'd write about my experiences (and put my degree to work).
I've actually referenced this specific board in a lot of my posts because I think it's really helpful to see people who have recovered and are recovering. If anyone has any specific advice that's helped them out or wants to have their story featured on a post, please let me know. I'm just trying to spread the word that it's gonna get better.

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Guest over a year ago

Hello, I'm wondering what your experiences were coming off the pill? If you are writing a blog I assume you feel strongly about this topic and had a pretty rough experience so I'm just curious if our stories are similar.

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Guest over a year ago

Where can we find your blog?

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CaiteOc360860 over a year ago

Hi - yeah, it was honestly just a really traumatizing experience for me. When I was on the pill, I was angry all the time, depressed and when it got to the point of suicidal thoughts, I knew it had to stop. Coming off the pill made me super depressed and anxious. I guess I feel like there should be more stories of people who have gone through something like this because there's so much out there that will say there's no relationship between the two.

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Guest over a year ago

Yeah I felt the same way. It's been around 5 months since I've got off and I still don't feel 100%. When I first got off I was super depressed and emotional. Mainly because I felt this urge to break up with my boyfriend. This whole process has mainly effected my relationship with him and how I feel towards him and that's the #1 reason I had so much anxiety, depression and intrusive thoughts. It's definitely better then how I was in the beginning though. The weird thing is, once I went on the pill I knew right away after about two weeks I started to feel differently about him. Almost like I fell out of love. I thought going off the pill would help this but it only made it worse. But here I am 5 months later holding on!

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Guest over a year ago

I'm having huge problems with being paranoid about my husband cheating and lying, it's driving me (and him) crazy! I was having this thoughts while on the pill, stopped taking it to see what happens and if it's the pill that's making me paranoid and anxious, but now I'm feeling the same or even worse. I hope it will get better with time, it has to!

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Iris358066 over a year ago

Hi ladies. I've had a good last couple of weeks. I've felt normal. But today I've had some horrible anxiety. (Just coming off ovulation). I am working on 6 months off now. I don't know if the anxiety could be caused by the fact I had some coffee earlier or the fact that a few days ago I had to take a Plan B pill.

I really really really DREAD I had to take that pill because I'm so so so scared of it setting me back to square one. But it was an emergency and I could not take any chances. Do you guys know if this could have a negative effect? :/ I'm so scared of being worse off again after I've worked so hard to stay sane these last 5.5 months. Shyla? Anxiously? Anyone know anything about this :(

TIA

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Guest over a year ago

What month did you come off the pill? I had to take a plan b pill about 2 weeks coming off the pill and I’m not sure if that caused a lot of anxiety or just the fact of coming off the pill.

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Iris358066 over a year ago

I stopped at the end of March!

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Guest over a year ago

I stopped in may and have had a lot of progress but still wouldn’t say I am 100%. I really just have relationship anxiety and constantly question my love for him. Other than that everything else has gotten a lot better. Although sometimes I still feel like my life is so boring and nothing is new and exciting and it’s the same things happening everyday! Anyway, yeah I think plan b can definitely cause the anxiety. It’s a lot of hormones which as you know causes anxiety! Wait it out you’ll be fine.

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Guest over a year ago

This sounds exactly like me an i can totally relate. It was the hardest part. I feel that im finally startin to relax a bit now. I havent been as anxious or paranoid in last week or so. Best advice i can give is whether the storm an it will get better. I jus kept telling myself all the good things my husband does for me an that if he didnt love me he wouldnt put up with all the fights i caused cos if my paranoia. I hope you feel better soon. I also take vitamin b complex, oceans 3 healthy hormones, macca root, magnesium and 5htp. I kno it sounds like a lot but they are all herbal an i feel they really helped

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Guest over a year ago

How long are you off the pill? I'm about to reach 2 months in a few days.

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Guest over a year ago

I am almost a year off now!but it didnt start affecting me until about 3/4 months off- or from what i noticed anyway! Its been a long hard slog im not gona lie but def think the herbal supplements helped level me out

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Guest over a year ago

What herbal supplements have you been taking ?

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Guest over a year ago

Oceans 3 healthy hormones, magnesium, 5htp, macca root and a vitamin b complex. Maybe its a placebo effect but they are herbal an cant do any harm so il keep taking them. I wouldnt say im totally normal again, still have my bad times but im a lot better than what i was an i feel closer to my husband again

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