Birth Control + Anxiety/Depression

Jesca

Has anyone found that their birth control is the source of their anxiety and/or depression?

Around December, the birth control I had been taking for a year seemed to stop being effective. I began bleeding, and my anxiety went through the roof.

I bled for 4 months and my specialist switched me to a higher dose. That controlled the bleeding, but it’s as if my anxiety is even worse now.

Since December, I’ve been having anxiety that literally debilitates me. I’m unable to work or go to school because of how terrible my symptoms are.

Just wondering if anyone else has experience with this? I’d love to know if getting off the pill helped at all, too.