hello all, i've been reading your stories and feel i need to writ...

Don't worry, you are not the only one. I admit, I can be a worrier, nervous at times, but never did I ever had the anxiety and the panic attacks until almost 2 months into taking this pill. I've done so much research and found that these synthetic hormones can mess with your natural hormone levels, and when your hormones are thrown off, then nothing else can work properly. I advise you to talk to your doctor, show him/her what you've found on the internet (the message boards) get a good multi vitamin, and start a program for anxiety - if it's out of your control. I'm doing a 15 week program from the MIdwest Center of Stress and Anxiety and it's helped tremendously. The woman who founded it is Lucinda Basset and she also has an awesome book called From Panic to Power. For me, I think I was going through a lot of big stuff, and then the Yasmin just threw me over the edge. It sounds like it's the same with you. I know it SUCKS, but you can over come it!
God bless!

Exact same experience with Yasmin and antibiotics (suicidal thoughts, severe anxiety). I experienced depersonalization all 5 years I was on Yasmin.
I went off Yasmin for a few months and I was the most emotionally stable I have ever been in my life. The months off of Yasmin were the happiest of my life. I was able to experience a happy adult life for the very first time.
Unaware that there might be a connection between the happiest months of my life and the absence of Yasmin, I started taking it again 2 weeks ago after entering in a serious relationship (that flourished during the months I was off of Yasmin because I was my true self with no crazy emotions or actions. Getting along with people I cared about was easier than ever during this time). Ever since the day I restarted Yasmin 2 weeks ago, I have felt the depersonalization for the first time in months and tonight I had what felt like a panic attack. Since I have gone back on Yasmin, my emotions are so intense that my cognition is affected and it is extremely scary for me to make decisions. Looking back on the 5 years that I was on Yasmin the first time it was hard for me to make decisions about peer pressure because my perception of right and wrong did not reach my cognition, only my emotions and my extreme up and down emotions were never satisfied by being cautious. The past 2 weeks I haven't had an opinion about anything that isn't emotionally-charged. Logic is harder to retrieve than it was when I was off Yasmin because my emotions are so overpowering. I try to make decisions based on what I have learned and realized and understood during the months I was off Yasmin but I feel like I was a more thoughtful and intelligent person when I perceived my life logically (when I was off Yasmin) so trying to live my life based on the principles that were best for me and made those months the happiest ones has been nearly impossible these past 2 weeks that I've been back on Yasmin. My emotions are just too controlling and as a result I replay my recent interactions with people and always wonder why I feel I wasn't in control enough to do or say what I knew was right and considered as an option even at the time instead of what blurted out. These cases of second-guessing myself after the fact (I think the delay in judgment occurs when emotions calm down when the medicine wears off, but I could be totally wrong) only cause anxiety and being even more self-conscious than I already am and depression from not being able to feel or act normal.
My assessment (pure speculation) is that the Yasmin is so powerful that it causes my hormones to override most logical thought and true emotion so when on it I sometimes get close to thinking practically but logic is so unattainable. Even I can’t know myself because I can’t distinguish between logical thoughts and hormone-induced emotions so I lose sight of the real me and what I know about life. The worst part is that so much time passed while the real me was hidden behind hormones, ashamed of, embarrassed by, and depressed about the person Yasmin let everyone think that I was.
I wouldn't be surprised if Yasmin causes dehydration because my physical symptoms these past 2 weeks & the 5 years I was on Yasmin are: headaches, bloating, moodiness, and very increased appetite/weight gain. Basically being on Yasmin has felt like a constant hangover.
Another note…during the 5 year timespan that I was on Yasmin, I only forgot the pill twice. Both times, as instructed, I took the pill from the missed day with the following day pill. During my shower on each separate occasion I became very weak and dizzy, my ears plugged suddenly and then my vision vanished and I woke up on the floor of the shower (fainting from too much of the scary hormones in Yasmin). The only other time I have ever fainted in my life was mid-conversation 10 minutes or so after donating blood but I had had plenty to eat and had donated blood before without fainting. I wonder now if the Yasmin was a factor.