(11-10-2023, 12:18 AM)Ninurta Wrote: Anecdotally, my first wife was put on birth control pills in her early teens, with the objective of regulating out of control periods. It seems to have worked for that, but otherwise, she was just batshit crazy. Whether the birth control explains that or not is up for grabs, but it seems an interesting connection.
Fear is a natural response to danger, and the absence of it when it ought to be present gets a lot of folks killed. Therefore, it does seem to have the potential to be a self-solving problem.
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Speaking of batshit crazy...Way back when I first got married my wife had been on them for awhile (before we met) and she had bi-polar like mood swings which got worse & worse. Thought I was going to go insane. Thought for sure we'd end in divorce. Never gave the pills a thought at all. After seeing countless number of doctors she was finally properly diagnosed. Turned out to be Graves disease. A few months after her surgery of having 98% of her thyroid removed the mood swings (and other symptoms) disappeared and her voice stayed the same. That female military surgeon saved our marriage.
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