[brightball]

Oh, I've wondered about the societal effects of birth control pills for a couple of decades. Stuff like the above theory, effects on difficulty conceiving when women get off of it finally.

Talk to a doctor sometime about the volume of 30+ year old women who are on some type of daily anxiety medication. My understanding is that it's approaching 50% or higher.

Was that level of anxiety among women common before birth control?

IMO there are a whole lot of questions that come from it.

[ClumsyPilot]

You spotted a social phenomena, but you have no reason to blame the borth control pill- it could bechemical pollution, tefllon, etc.

[brightball]

There’s certainly plausible reason to wonder about it. Consider how many women take it, for many many years. Many women go through multiple different types of pills due to the effects certain pills will have on their body, from weight gain to period frequency.

You do that for 5, 10, 15…20 years…it’s reasonable to wonder what it will do longer term.

At the same time, as you age and have older friend groups it’s hard not to notice a correlation between the friends you have who never took birth control or minimally took it who also have no anxiety issues and those that don’t.

Maybe it could be something else but IMO it warrants further study.