The contraceptive pill is incredibly popular, but its widespread use should be re-evaluated.
Last month it came as a relief to those of us on the pill when the enforced rule of having a seven day break from the pill was exposed as being pointless.
After the bombshell news that the break is a waste of time, more studies are demonstrating that previous ideas around the pill may be false.
There was once a school of thought that the pill could help with mental health issues by balancing out hormones that cause extreme moods.
However, new research has found a strong link between the use of the pill and mental health problems.
In a recent poll by the BBC, a quarter of women who take the pill said they believe it damages their mental health. In the same survey, two-thirds of women said they didn't actually know how the hormones they were putting into their body could affect them.
This clearly demonstrates the lack of understanding surrounding the pill, indicating that we need to be more informed about how the pill could potentially affect us before we are prescribed it.
Teenagers who are on the pill have an 80 per cent increased risk of suffering from depression, according to a study of more than one million women by the University of Copenhagen in 2016.
This is very worrying for those of us who take the pill.
Over 100 million women take the pill worldwide, including 3.5 million women in Britain.
However, with so much new information about how damaging the pill can be for our mental health and how misguided the medical community have been on how to use it, should it still be the most popular and distributed form of contraception?
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