They then compared these groups in terms of their risk of depression at the final follow-up in 2017 They found that the risk of depression was associated with whether people used oral contraceptives, and when they started (teen vs adult)
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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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