Can I have trauma due to infertility?

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“Examining PTSD as a Complication of Infertility”, @medscape

✔️Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is diagnosed in patients with persistent psychiatric distress resulting from events involving actual or threatened death or injury.
➡️Subsequent to the trauma, victims experience feelings of intense fear, helplessness, or horror.
➡️The precipitating trauma sets in motion a series of physical and emotional reactions that can have major and long-lasting effects.
➡️The characteristic triad of PTSD symptoms include (1) persistent re-experiencing of the event, (2) avoidance of reminders and numbing of responsiveness, and (3) increased arousal.
➡️Psychologically, PTSD is characterized by a classic triad of intrusive, avoidant, and hyperarousal symptoms.

✔️The stress of trying to overcome infertility and trying to manage a high-risk pregnancy have been linked with triggering stress responses associated with PTSD symptoms.

✔️When PTSD develops in response to infertility or other adverse reproductive events, patients exhibit the classic triad of symptoms described above.
➡️They may re-experience the trauma as nightmares, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts about distressing procedures or pregnancy loss.
➡️Symptoms may manifest as extreme distress under seemingly innocuous circumstances, such as seeing a pregnant person, menstruating, or visiting the doctor's office; these types of occurrences may trigger a recollection of the infertility battle or mark an anniversary of events in the struggle to conceive and/or to complete a difficult pregnancy.

✔️Avoidant symptoms include hesitance to discuss the trauma or to engage in any activities, thoughts, and feelings connected with infertility, pregnancy, or childbirth.

✔️Outbursts of anger, severe concentration difficulties, and an exaggerated startle response are seen in addition to physical manifestations of anxiety.

✔️The clinician who sees any patient during the course of an infertility work-up or treatments should be vigilant regarding any symptoms suggestive of PTSD.

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13 years😢….glad I found your channel for some relief❤

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