Even more importantly, a large meta-analysis that came out last year looked at some specific types of oral contraceptive and found no relationship with depression at allpic.twitter.com/WjMyaPM7vi
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Does the pill have side-effects (sometimes really nasty ones)? Absolutely. I don't for a second want to diminish the impact that oral contraceptives can have
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That being said, the fearmongering in these headlines is a massive headache. There may be ~some~ association between oral contraceptive use and depression, but it's not nearly as scary as you might've seen reported
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Also, the side-effects of oral contraceptive use usually pale in comparison to the side-effects of pregnancy, so it's a bit of a challenging argument
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I wrote a blog about a similar study a while back, with almost identical issueshttps://medium.com/@gidmk/why-is-the-pill-so-depressing-1b429d271d33 …
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I should also add - the authors of the paper were very upfront about all of this, and emphasized that women should still use contraceptives, so I think it's very much the media's problem here
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