Evening Primrose Oil causing Depression?

[guitarbabe9]

Hi, I'm a 16 year old girl, and often in the mornings I felt unwell, which my mother decided was due to a hormone imbalance, so she gave me oil of evening primrose, which I took. About  week ago, I started to become very depressed - I have had mood swings before, and am prone to quite low lows, if that makes sense? However, it was much worse this time, and I had random crying fits, wanting to hide away, and very low self esteem. Sometimes I felt better again, but a simple, trivial comment fom my father like "no, cut the potatoes a bit bigger" would set me off again back into my depression, feeling like I was hopeless and couldn't cope, an could never achieve anything in my life.
I am not the sort of person who can really talk to my parents, i find it very difficult, as I do not get on very well with my mother a lot of the time, who just gets irritated if I am not my "normal, happy self" and struggle to expres my feelings even to my dad, who I am much closer to. [Both of my parents dismiss anything negative, such as concerns about my appearence, as "normal teenage stuff", but I feel I have it wose than I should.]
Friends as well are out of the question, as I do not really have anyone I trust and who I feel cares about me enough to listen [another thing which worsenes my depression, and vice versa.] So, my question is, is this connected to the oil of evening primrose supplement or my menstual cycle in general? Stupid question I know, but I have never felt like this before, wanting to just disappear and wishing my life would just end [although i would not do that to my family].
I started to improve over the last couple of days, and today I got my period, which has been the worst it's ever been, with awful back pain and nausea; is this also connected, and does this mean anything?

Apologies for the long post, and thank you to all who took the time to read it.

[ToffeeGirl]

I am very glad I found this forum, as i have just had no luck finding anywhere else on line people discussing the negative effects of Primrose Oil.

I too noticed I started to get very gloomy and down within a week of taking it.
I didn't feel depressed before i started to take it, I merely thought it was a good idea to start taking it as i read it's very good for the overall health and well being of women.

I couldn't believe when my period came i had the worst pmt i'd had for years, and figured it can't be a coincidence that i'd started taking the Primose a few weeks before.

I've now stopped taking it, and am taking a vitamin b complex instead and vitamin e and multi vit.

I wish there was more honest literature online about the negative effects of Primrose!! I've been so down I've not understood why, now i feel happier i can cut out what i believe was causing it.

[c2steph]

I am also glad that I found this forum. I have been very depressed after taking Evening prim rose for 2 weeks. I thought it would help my pms but the evening prime rose made it so much worst.  I have since stopped taking it but I'm still really depressed (I guess it hasn't left my system yet...I took a lot of it).  

I'm so relieved to know that my depression will be over soon!  I wasn't sure where it was coming from (I just realized that the evening prime rose was causing my depression while I was searching for natural remedies for depression...I found this forum in the process).

[hevg]

Well I'm really glad too to have found these answers because I started taking evening primrose to help calm my horrible pmt only to find that instead of having the symptoms once a month that I feel like I have them every day.  I forgot to take the tablets for a few days and today felt the happiest I have in ages but took a pill when I got home and by this evening was moody, tearful and hugely negative.  I'm going to stop for the weekend and see what happens.

[iyla777]

I am so glad I found this forum, I thought I was going crazy. I am two years menopausal. In taking primrosed oil within four day I started feeling heavily depressed. After I got my period I stopped for a month. Started up again last month same thing happened within a couple of days. My doctor said don't take it during my period. Started again two weeks before my period same heavy weepy depression. Decided to see if there was a possibility that other felt this way and found this forum. It has the opposite effec and caused more intense pms symtoms.

[agatha17]

I have generalized anxiety disorder and haven't had an attack for close to three months. I started taking EPO less than a week ago and am experiencing anxiety symptoms which are just toooo familiar. I googled abt EPO and all I read are good things and many people claimed it worked for their panic attacks! Not for me I'm sure!! I took a while to stabilize my anxiety condition and now feel so stupid for taking EPO (supposedly for good skin) without doing thorough research first!!  I'm gonna get off it and see how it goes.

[StaceyAnn25]

I've been taking 3000mgs a day for 8 weeks and have felt so depressed. Nobody warned me of this. It was prescribed to me by a doctor who did not warn me of this. Hope your ok now though.