birth control led to bruises
i have depression symptoms and have had these for awhile but then things started to get bad. i was having these crazy 'episodes' and couldn't figure out what could possibly cause me to freak out and want to kill myself or cut my wrists or bang my head against the wall repeatedly. i opened up to a woman i know about how i was feeling and she told me that she too had felt like that when she was taking birth control but didn't correlate for about seven years. she would have really hard times during her cycle at the same time every month. eventually she stopped taking birth control and these bouts of dark darkness disappeared. a few years later she took a plan b pill which is essentially a large dose of the hormones you get from birth control. she had this same darkness come over her a month after she took the pill. i then realized that the time i had cut my wrists was one month after i took a plan b (i was able to figure this out because i got a hold of my records from my doctor and had a record of a plane ticket from the place i was visiting where i ended up cutting my wrists) cutting my wrists is not something i ever had a problem with. i then was able to track a few other of the episodes with times in my birth control cycle. i no longer take birth control in the form of hormones because the hormones caused an extreme response in me that triggered much more depression and anxiety than i could handle. i bruised myself more than once and hurt myself physically and mentally. i still feel down and get anxious but i have not had that overwhelming feeling of wanting to inflict pain on myself since i have been off of the pill and plan b.
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oh and do you have anyother medical conditions that would cause you to do this to yourself. i just get nervous when i read about others if it will happen to me. i hope you are ok. i hate that you went through that horrible time. how long have you been off your pill and plan b. was it a reaction of them together maybe are was it the pill by itself