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Infertility Treatment

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Stress can be broadly defined as any external and internal events that affects an organism’s well being. In attempt to maintain homeostasis, the body will respond to the psychological stress by modifying physiological processes (Nargund, 2015). Psychological stress is a number of emotional events that interrupts homeostasis. The disruption of homeostasis can affect many biological systems, such as metabolism, vascular function, tissue repair, nervous system and reproductive system. Both emotional and physical stress can have a negative impact on human reproductive function (Cousineau, 2007; Jakobovits et al, 2002). Therefore, it is very important to know how to cope with stress when experiencing life events that are very stressful. My presentation …show more content…

Infertility can be curable through treatments, but going through infertility treatment can be very challenging. There are two factors that can cause an increase on stress level of someone who’s going through infertility treatment: cost and time. These two factors can add to the stress level of couple whose experiencing infertility. Stress or anxiety can negatively affect the treatment of infertility, and can put the pregnancy at risk. Also any before and after psychological illness may affect fertilization therapy. However, it is recommended to go through psychotherapeutic treatment while going through infertility treatment. There are many researches supporting this idea and a lot of focus on different psychotherapeutic interventions such as Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. Another important factor regards the social support a patient gets from the partner, family and friends and the role that plays on reducing stress during infertility treatment. Researchers suggested that social support from partner, family and friends play a role on reducing infertility-related stress, also and couples with social support are more likely to go through infertility treatment successfully. However, partner support shows the greatest association with the overall findings for both men and women experiencing infertility (Martins, 2014; Greil at al.,

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