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Women taking contraceptive pill at higher risk of depression
| Posted on September 29, 2016 at 5:13 AM |
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 The Pill causes depressionNew research involving one million people has found that women are at
higher risk of depression when taking the contraceptive pill. The research also confirms that adolescent
girls are particularly sensitive to hormonal contraception. It is reported that around half of women of reproductive age use the
Pill, including more than a third of older teenagers. The Danish research team who carried out the
study found that an astonishing 23% of women taking the Pill were more likely
to suffer depression. In fact, this
figure is as high as 40% in the first few months after starting the Pill. It also found that the risk of depression was
magnified the younger they were. Interestingly, Ojvind Lidegaard of the University of Copenhagen, who led
the study, said that: “I’ve seen couples who have been close to divorce and
then removed hormonal contraception and the marriage recovered.” It would appear that pressure is continuing to mount on governments and the
giant pharmaceutical companies who produce contraceptives in terms of the clear
dangers posed by taking the contraceptive pill.
Increased blood pressure and blood clots are among the most serious
risks associated with taking the Pill, and this was never more tragically
evident than in the case of Fallan Kurek, a 21 year old
teaching assistant from Tamworth. Miss
Kurek died in May 2015 after suffering two cardiac arrests from a massive
pulmonary embolism on her lung. The
coroner concluded that Miss Kurek’s death was as a result of her taking the
contraceptive pill. The dangers of the Pill are evident and many have also claimed that it can
cause breast cancer. I suspect that if any other drug was known to cause depression,
increased blood pressure, blood clots, and even death, there would be an
immediate cessation of prescribing or selling the dangerous drug. You would expect governments to put pressure
on pharmaceutical companies to provide adequate and indisputable evidence that
there was no serious risk to health, and to ensure that only drugs that were
safe were made available to people. It
is wrong to allow for the continued use of hazardous drugs that could result in
serious health consequences, including death, for those who take them. |