How to Deal with Anxiety and Emotions When Meeting a Fertility Specialist? | Dr. Neelima Mantri

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How to Deal with Anxiety and Emotions When
Meeting a Fertility Specialist?
By DR. Neelima mantri
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INTRODUCTION

• Women who are experiencing infertility
  problems are faced with a lot of emotions and
  anxiety due to the feeling that something is
  wrong deeply with them.
• It is the expectations of family members and the
  society that creates an extra pressure on women
  who are faced with the challenge of motherhood.
• Dealing with anxiety and emotions can be a
  challenge when facing a fertility specialist.

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• The anxiety when undergoing infertility
  treatment can take a huge toll both physically
  and psychologically on women.
• They keeping control over emotions when meeting a
  fertility specialist can help relieve a great
  deal of pressure.
• Compared to men, women feel more distressed when
  faced with infertility.
• Hence, it is important that a woman experiencing
  such mental torment undergo a program for stress
  reduction.

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• A research study has disclosed that the
  depression within women facing infertility
  problem can be as much as those suffering from
  cancer or convalescing from a heart attack.
• The focus should be given on infertility
  counseling to deal with the stress and discuss
  all infertility queries with the fertility
  specialist.

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• Infertility counselling can be a solution for
  overcoming the stress being faced by women
  challenged with motherhood and include
• Managing emotions
• Secondary infertility
• Taking decisions about building a family
• Parenting after infertility
• Pregnancy loss
• Deciding to use a surrogate or a donor
• Sexual problems

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• Women in such circumstances go through
  depression, grief, shock, frustration, anger and
  loss of self-esteem and self-confidence.
• Here are few ways through which a woman can
  manage the emotions faced due to infertility.
• Educating about the process of treatment. You can
  prepare a questionnaire when consulting with
  an infertility specialist or a nurse about more
  information, risk factor and options that could
  help you take an informed decision.

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• Discuss at length with your partner about the
  options, cost of the treatment and how much
  insurance coverage you can expect to meet the
  expenses.
• Once undergoing the treatment you can either take
  the help of the clinical staff to keep you well
  informed about the steps being taken during
  retrieval of eggs.
• The other procedures, or simply engage yourself
  in other activities such as listening to music in
  order to overcome the mental trauma.

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• Helplessness can be very stressful, especially
  when a woman loses self-control.
• To overcome such trauma, taking self-control and
  nurturing yourself is important, especially when
  it comes to sleeping well, eating well, carrying
  out moderate exercises and engaging in such
  activities that are enjoyable.

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• Ultimately, it is important to be in a state of
  mind where disruptions and other negative results
  are acceptable.
• You should give yourself time to overcome the
  emotions and physical stress.
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• Dr Neelima Mantri is an infertility clinic in
  Mumbai where a woman can get the desired
  assistance to help to overcome the challenge of
  anxiety and emotion during infertility treatment.

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