{"id":67878,"date":"2026-10-29T07:32:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T20:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=67878"},"modified":"2026-10-29T07:32:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T20:32:21","slug":"iuds-emit-hormones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=67878","title":{"rendered":"IUDs Emit Hormones"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IUDs<\/p>\n

From a friend on Facebook:
\nBirth control is one of the most common gateway drugs into psychiatry for young women.<\/p>\n

I see the pattern over and over. She starts the pill or an IUD. Months later she’s anxious, irritable or depressed. Nobody connects the dots, so she gets a diagnosis and a psych med while the hormones keep destabilizing her mood.<\/p>\n

A Danish study followed over 1 million women. Every hormonal method raised the risk of ending up on an antidepressant, and for teens on the hormonal IUD that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From a friend on Facebook: Birth control is one of the most common gateway drugs into psychiatry for young women. I see the pattern over and over. She starts the pill or an IUD. Months later she’s anxious, irritable or depressed. Nobody connects the dots, so she gets a diagnosis and a psych med while … <\/p>\n

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