Birth control pills can relieve depression, premenstrual syndrome ...

This is an ?important discovery,? said Jovita Crasta, MD, Chief of Psychiatry at South Nassau Community Hospital in Oceanside, NYAll women were in the birth control pill Yasmin, which is composed of three weeks of estrogen-progestin hormone preparation, followed by a week of placebo pills. Some of the women received estrogen alone in this period.

The study was presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association.

One study suggests that taking oral contraceptives for a minimum of two months can stop PMS-related depression ? even women do not receive relief from standard antidepressant drugs.

?Many women fear that the pill can make you depressed, but we found very useful, ?says researcher Hadin Joffe, MD, director of studies of the endocrine system in the clinical research program in reproductive and perinatal psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

After two months in a standardized test of depression decreased on average by 80 percent and PMS scores had decreased by about 40 percent, he said.

It is suspected that the pill is hormone levels in the brain more stable.

The study involved 17 women who have had episodes of depression in the weeks before their menstrual period ? the time of PMS, in other words. The women had been in depression for at least two months before study entry, and none suffered from depression outside of PMS.

The researchers found that a 10-minute presentation with a manipulator with a booklet ? a greater awareness of breast cancer in women around 70.

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