This is why i absolutely despise anti-zoo activists. He died young, had a diet consisting of rats filled to the brim with poison, and lived in constant stress. “Oh but at least he died free right???” Fuck you.
I was placed on the pill at just 14 years old for acne. A few months later, I saw my first-ever therapist despite no prior history of depression. Shortly after that, I was placed on an SSRI.
Each time I would talk to my doctors about my deteriorating mental health, not a single one in nearly a decade of being on the pill suggested that it may in fact be the hormones I was taking every single day. Not one.
In retrospect, after being on birth control for nearly a decade, being placed on the pill for "acne" was akin to killing a mouse with a rocket launcher.
Though my anecdote is a story for another time, it is far from unique. Hundreds of thousands of women across the United States and the world have had a similar experience to mine-- feeling completely out of their mind on a pill their doctor told them was relatively "harmless."