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.

[shortib88]

I am only taking 1,000 mg every other day; it is blended with 27 IU of Vitamin E to assist with absorption (as mentioned by someone earlier). I take no other medications and it has had a similar anxiety effect on me. It magnifies my frustration by making me feel a little more dopey than usual so I can't manage the very complicated mental tasks of my life (law & finance). I also experienced "deviant thoughts", kinda like nightmare worries (not the same as depression, more like mania). I'm not the devient thought type, so it was very disturbing (perhaps too much TV before bed?).

I took it because I have adult acne and was trying everything for interviews. I remember not liking it when I was a teenager (my aunt gave me some for my menstrual cycle). It's only been a little over a week and I've not seen an improvement in my skin.

[sima933]

Yes yes, for me too....I am 52 and I took it for my hair and skin and I got very depressed even 500 mg making me very depressed same as fish oil and conjucated linoleic acid (CLA) which is good for loosing weight and flax seed oil....I think all this oil is kind of estrogenic and make us feel depressed

[a451]

I have been felling anxious, depressed and irrational for the past few weeks and I couldn't understand out of the blue where this mind set came from. I started to think back to when it started and realized it was around the time I started taking the evening primrose oil. I did not take one yesterday and I am not going to take them again to see if that is the problem. I did a google search and this is the only information I could find on side effects.

[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.

[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.

[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.