Hi. Am on my phone so excuse typos. Can't be arsed to name change for this.
Wondering if anyone else has had experience of being put on a contraceptive pill and feeling very depressed to the point of feeling vaguely suicidal? I'm not actively thinking of ways to do it but go through periods of thinking that there is not much point to my life and that it would be better to just finish it.
For background, I have a history of depression and anxiety as an adolescent and anxiety as an adult. The anxiety has been relatively well controlled with citalopram and I would like to come off it. Two months ago I asked for the OCP to limit my periods as I have endometriosis and was going to be travelling and didn't want to deal with it for a few months.
I now find that I feel ugly, fat, useless and have a very short fuse. I scared myself and my DH the other night with how down I was, talking
about suicide. I am still travelling so can't come off the Pill yet.
The Pill is Marvelon, not sure if it's available in the UK.
Anyone have any experience with this? Am hoping when I do come off, things will right themselves.
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The Pill/OCP and depression
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PolkaDotsandPumpkin · 22/08/2014 21:28
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