Is My Birth Control Making Me Crazy?

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Content Warning: Mental health and suicide

What's going down:

• An in-depth analysis of hormonal birth control usage in the United States
• A close look at the limited data on hormonal birth control use in people who have previously been diagnosed with mental health struggles
• Exposing whether starting hormonal birth control will jump-start mental health issues
• Clitorally STOP making content based on studies that are dated and inaccurate - Find out why "they" call birth control the divorce pill here.
• Breaking down why we even think birth control could affect our mental health
• Understanding the difference between correlation and causation
• The reason birth control can actually minimize anxiety and increase your mood
• Revealing the most (surprisingly) popular form of birth control in the United States

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References

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