Clinical depression blankets every aspect of a person’s life, from social engagements to meals to work. The illness even reduces a woman’s chance of having a baby, according to a new study by researchers from the Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine.
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Women’s Mental Health Disorders, Like Depression And Anxiety, May Negatively Affect Chances Of IVF Success
New research published in Fertility and Sterility suggests depression and anxiety may reduce a woman’s chance of having a baby through in vitro fertilization (IVF).
PCOS: is the Pill the Only Answer?
Many lifestyle changes have been shown to pull someone out of the metabolic chaos of PCOS, therefore decreasing their chances of developing comorbidities such as diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, sleep apnea, anxiety, depression and infertility.
Antidepressants Affect Fertility
More than one quarter of Americans suffer from some form of mental illness and the number of patients treated with antidepressants continues to rise. Additionally, anxiety and depression are becoming more prevalent among couples trying to have children, and so medications prescribed to treat these disorders are also increasingly common. What isn’t clear is the impact mental health and the use of such treatments has on fertility, and whether untreated mental illness is detrimental to fertility.
Women Who Become Mothers Following Fertility Treatment Face Increased Risk of Depression
Women giving birth after undergoing fertility treatment face an increased risk of depression compared to women ending up not having a child following fertility treatment, according to new research from the University of Copenhagen. According to the researchers, this has key implications for fertility treatment in future.
Study: Unsuccessful Fertility Treatment Not Linked With Increased Risk of Clinically Diagnosed Depression in Women
An analysis of data on more than 41,000 Danish women who received assisted reproductive fertility treatment shows that unsuccessful treatment is not linked with an increased risk of clinically diagnosed depression compared with successful treatment.
What Is the Male Menopause?
Is the male menopause myth or reality? When men reach their late forties to early fifties, some may experience a reduction in libido (sex drive), erectile dysfunction, weight gain, fatigue, depression, and other emotional symptoms which bear some similarities to the female menopause.
Stressed, depressed women terrible at using birth control
SAN FRANCISCO – Depression and stress can cause lapses in proper use of contraception, a new study suggests.
In the study, women with moderate to severe depression and stress symptoms were less likely to use contraception consistently — that is, use it each time they had sex — compared to women with mild or no symptoms. Women with depression or stress were also more likely to say they did not use contraception at all in the past week compared to women with less severe symptoms.
The findings, presented here on Monday at the annual meeting of the America Public Health Association, are concerning because, although preventing unplanned pregnancies is important for all women, it may be especially important for women with mental health issues, said study researcher Kelli Stidham Hall. Read full article.
Women Who Fail to Bear Children Twice as Likely to be Hospitalized for Alcoholism
ISTANBUL – Women who want to become mothers but fail to bear children are at more than twice the risk of being hospitalised for alcoholism as those who succeed, it appears.
Researchers also found the risk of ending up in hospital for other serious psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia was markedly higher in women unable to become pregnant due to infertility.
The academics behind the study, presented at the annual conference of the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) in Istanbul, said their results were “only the tip off the iceberg” because many more would be affected, but not so badly as to need in-patient treatment.
British fertility specialists argued the results were “shocking” evidence that infertility should be classed as a disease, reported the Daily Telegraph.
They said it added weight to the argument that IVF should receive greater public funding, because infertility was a disease in its own right.