It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told)

by Karen Tang

Women continue to be treated as if they need to be protected from their own minds when it comes to reproductive decisions such as birth control, sterilization, and abortion. Similarly,

treatments that can cause people to feel worse than their original problems do continue to be used. For example, hormonal birth control and antidepressants can be absolutely transformative for many patients, but for some, the mental and physical side effects are worse than the symptoms being treated. The problem isn’t that these options are offered but rather that some healthcare providers insist that patients continue

It’s not hysteria, and it never was.