>>81741685 (OP)
weight gain is the least of your problems if you use hormonal contraceptives.
This shit rewires fucking everything in your body and brain.
my mom said she used contraceptives for about a year in her 20's and her fingernails, which have always been strong and normal became super brittle and would constantly crack and break off.
Just like the weight gain, thats an example of what happens on the physical side.
The psychological side is much more sinister. It literally alters your brain chemistry, makes you more or less likely to behave in certain ways, like or dislike certain things.
>A large and robust literature shows that sex hormones, including estrogen and progesterone, have widespread effects throughout the body and brain, far beyond sex and pregnancy. They play a role in nearly all the body's systems, influencing everything from cardiovascular and immune function to emotion regulation, executive function, and appetite.
>"It's only very recently that people have started to ask the question: What does this mean for birth control pills? And since we started asking it, we've begun to find some peculiar things," said Sarah E. Hill, PhD, a professor of psychology at Texas Christian University who studies the role of women's hormones in relationships and health and authored the book This Is Your Brain on Birth Control.
>One troubling finding: Taking hormonal contraceptives during adolescence is linked to a higher risk of developing major depressive disorder in adulthood, according to research by Chen and her postdoc, Christine Anderl, PhD (The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Vol. 61, No. 2, 2020; The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Vol. 63, No. 3, 2022).
>"That suggests there may be a long-term effect of these synthetic hormones on the way the brain develops during adolescence-that it's not just about the side effects happening when these drugs are currently in your system," Chen said.
