Name: Is Birth Control For You?
Uploaded: 2025-07-25T18:52:49.000Z
Duration: 5 min 38 s
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We're talking about birth control, it's a lot, do you take birth control?

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So I'm off birth control now, of like any forms of birth control, so I was on birth control from like 16 to 24, which is a long time to be on hormones you like entirely don't understand.

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My periods are insane, I currently have my period right now and it feels like the wrath of like seven suns just like going through my body.

I started birth control in high school and it was kind of this thing where they pressure you into going on birth control and when I say they I mean the gynecologists, so like I, and I get why they do that, I mean they're worried about teen pregnancy and it does help with a lot of side effects of PMS and acne, I think it's helped a lot of people, but I, but it was weird that they just kind of put you on it and you don't really learn that much about it, I didn't really learn about it in school or in health class or anything and I didn't really talk to anyone about it.

And then you just get this like packet that like unfolds like 17 times.

And it's like what am I on, like you have no clue what it says in there or like what the health risks associated with it are, like the mental side effects, the physical side effects, like the weight gain and all that, you don't get like a walk through, especially with the mental side effects, that was like one of the most surprising things to me.

And that's kind of the thing that people don't talk about a lot, because you talk about the physical side effects, I have been on many types of birth control, I've even tried Nuvaring, it was great because I didn't have to remember to take it, my biggest issue was like taking it at the same time every day, which is actually really hard, so yeah I felt all the physical side effects, but then I also had these mental side effects, and I don't think the doctors believed me, so and that was the hard part, so I felt like it was making me depressed, and I felt changes in my mood, and I would bring it up to the doctors, and they really, they tried to switch me to different ones, and they didn't really acknowledge it with a conversation around like well maybe you shouldn't be on birth control, it was more like trying to figure out different ones, so it wasn't until recently after talking with lots of people that I finally was like I don't want to be on birth control anymore, because my body just doesn't do well with birth control.

So like for anyone that has like any history of mental illness, or mental health issues, you're kind of playing with fire, so for me, like my family has a history of mental health issues, I felt like it was making me more depressed, when you don't have doctors validating that feeling, then you're like okay, like oh no, I'm just crazy.

I'm really glad that I could talk to women about it now, because it definitely increased my depression, increased my anxiety, and I, it was hard to even tell like what it was, like I had to pinpoint like oh I'm taking birth control, that's what's causing this.

If you're a person that's taking birth control, like that's totally fine, because it helps with periods, it helps with acne, there's all these like wonderful side effects it does have, but I think the problem is like just not understanding what you're taking, and when you're going on it when you're 16, and you don't understand what you're taking, and then you start to feel these like crazy emotions, it's like what's happening to my body?

I mean I definitely think it's important, and birth control, it should be free for women, and there's a lot of women that it really helps, and women who don't have these side effects, like any medication, but you should educate yourself, and learn like what is harming your body, or what's helping you, because it took me so many years, like most of my teen years into young adult, to realize the impact it was having on me, and I was also kind of embarrassed to even bring it up, or talk about it.

Totally, because I was like terrified to ask questions, I was terrified to talk about my mental illness, I was terrified to talk about anxiety and depression, and even give those things that labels, I was just like oh I'm just having a really bad day, and then it was like 14 days in a row, and then it was like a couple months, and then I was like this is maybe not normal.

I have a hormone imbalance, and I have very irregular periods, and the solution is to go on birth control.

My physical body felt great, I was getting my period regularly, PMS was a lot lighter, but I was very depressed, so it wasn't worth it for me.

And it sucks because when you're young, and you're dating shitty dudes, you're like I just gotta not get pregnant with this horrible potential father's child, so this is not me.

If dudes had the potential to get pregnant, I think one, birth control would be free, two, it would be dispensed at every corner, there would be little dispensaries everywhere.

Oh yeah, so many studies, and like if, oh god, if men felt period cramps, if they felt like weight gain, if they felt like the mental effects of birth control, like there would be so much more money invested on studying, so much more money invested on educating.

Do you guys have any birth control stories, success, failures, anything you want to talk about?

Yeah, I'm sure there's gonna be some angry men.