Dr. Chris Palmer

So 100%, everything you just said, and maybe even more concretely, or just to add to that,

to say if you are a woman and you've chosen to go on birth control and now all of a sudden, a few months later or a year later, you're having mental health struggles, anxiety, depression, suicidality, anything, mood instability, talk to your healthcare practitioner about could this birth control pill be playing a role in my new onset mental health condition

to say if you are a woman and you've chosen to go on birth control and now all of a sudden, a few months later or a year later, you're having mental health struggles, anxiety, depression, suicidality, anything, mood instability, talk to your healthcare practitioner about could this birth control pill be playing a role in my new onset mental health condition

to say if you are a woman and you've chosen to go on birth control and now all of a sudden, a few months later or a year later, you're having mental health struggles, anxiety, depression, suicidality, anything, mood instability, talk to your healthcare practitioner about could this birth control pill be playing a role in my new onset mental health condition

And could I maybe go off of this and let's see?

And could I maybe go off of this and let's see?

And could I maybe go off of this and let's see?

Exactly. Let's take the worst case scenario. That's not good. A birth control pill is going to adversely affect a woman's mental health. Yes. She is... 18 years old. We'll make her an adult so we don't piss anyone off. She's 18 years old. She decides to go on birth control. She had never had mental health symptoms before.

Exactly. Let's take the worst case scenario. That's not good. A birth control pill is going to adversely affect a woman's mental health. Yes. She is... 18 years old. We'll make her an adult so we don't piss anyone off. She's 18 years old. She decides to go on birth control. She had never had mental health symptoms before.

Exactly. Let's take the worst case scenario. That's not good. A birth control pill is going to adversely affect a woman's mental health. Yes. She is... 18 years old. We'll make her an adult so we don't piss anyone off. She's 18 years old. She decides to go on birth control. She had never had mental health symptoms before.

And now at 18 and a half or 19, all of a sudden she starts having new onset anxiety or depression. She goes to her doctor to talk about this. Yes. because she's talked to her friends and all her friends say, oh, you've got to go and get on some Prozac or Zoloft. It really helps.

And now at 18 and a half or 19, all of a sudden she starts having new onset anxiety or depression. She goes to her doctor to talk about this. Yes. because she's talked to her friends and all her friends say, oh, you've got to go and get on some Prozac or Zoloft. It really helps.

And now at 18 and a half or 19, all of a sudden she starts having new onset anxiety or depression. She goes to her doctor to talk about this. Yes. because she's talked to her friends and all her friends say, oh, you've got to go and get on some Prozac or Zoloft. It really helps.

So now she goes to the doctor and now the doctor prescribes her Zoloft on top of the birth control pill. The Zoloft maybe kind of sort of works, but then three months later, now her sleep is really disrupted because of the Zoloft or she starts gaining weight. But now her sleep is disrupted. And so what does the doctor do? Well, let's put you on a sleeping pill now.

So now she goes to the doctor and now the doctor prescribes her Zoloft on top of the birth control pill. The Zoloft maybe kind of sort of works, but then three months later, now her sleep is really disrupted because of the Zoloft or she starts gaining weight. But now her sleep is disrupted. And so what does the doctor do? Well, let's put you on a sleeping pill now.

So now she goes to the doctor and now the doctor prescribes her Zoloft on top of the birth control pill. The Zoloft maybe kind of sort of works, but then three months later, now her sleep is really disrupted because of the Zoloft or she starts gaining weight. But now her sleep is disrupted. And so what does the doctor do? Well, let's put you on a sleeping pill now.

Let's put you on a sleeping pill so we can help you sleep. And now she's on three pills all because somebody didn't recognize what the root cause was, which was a bad reaction to a medication. I cannot tell you how many people I've seen that this has happened. Really? My estimation is millions and millions of people are in that situation where they, again, they go on uphill for a good reason.

Let's put you on a sleeping pill so we can help you sleep. And now she's on three pills all because somebody didn't recognize what the root cause was, which was a bad reaction to a medication. I cannot tell you how many people I've seen that this has happened. Really? My estimation is millions and millions of people are in that situation where they, again, they go on uphill for a good reason.

Let's put you on a sleeping pill so we can help you sleep. And now she's on three pills all because somebody didn't recognize what the root cause was, which was a bad reaction to a medication. I cannot tell you how many people I've seen that this has happened. Really? My estimation is millions and millions of people are in that situation where they, again, they go on uphill for a good reason.

She, you know, she's 18. She's dating somebody. She wants to be responsible. She wants to make sure she's not going to get pregnant. And that's our society would say that she's being responsible. That's great. The boyfriend wants her to be on the pill. Everybody wants her to be on the pill. Everybody. So she's on the pill. And now it starts having adverse effects.