30% of infertile women are diagnosed with infertility of unknown origin. In most cases, the inability to get pregnant is associated with psychological problems and doctors call this psychological infertility.
Diagnosis and treatment of infertility should begin with an examination by a gynecologist. There are many physiological causes of this problem: from obstruction of the fallopian tubes to hormonal imbalances. If gynecologists cannot identify any pathology, often the cause must be sought in the psychological attitudes of the woman.
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Causes of psychological infertility
Two groups of psychological attitudes can be distinguished, which are opposite in essence, but lead to the same result.
Of course, the diagnosis and treatment of infertility, first of all, should be started with an examination by a gynecologist: there are many physiological causes of this problem – from obstruction of the fallopian tubes to hormonal imbalances. However, psychological infertility is not a fictional diagnosis. In cases where gynecologists cannot detect any pathology, the body, it would seem, is completely healthy and ready for the birth of a child, but conception still does not occur – it is often the psychological attitudes that are to blame.
There are many reasons and scenarios for the development of psychological infertility, but among them, two groups of psychological attitudes can be distinguished, which are opposite in essence, but lead to the same result – infertility.
An obsessive desire to get pregnant
The first group of reasons for the development of psychological infertility is caused by “fixation” on this problem. An obsessive desire to get pregnant at all costs, accompanied by long months or even years of failure, leads to the development of a psychological block. Despite the desire to get pregnant, a woman whose psychological infertility in her soul is already set to fail, and futile attempts only add feelings of disappointment in herself and “worthlessness”, which contributes to the development of stress and prevents normal conception.
In such cases, it is useful to switch your attention to some other problems and concerns, to distract yourself from an obsessive thought, and, if possible, reduce the importance of this event. After all, numerous cases are known when pregnancy occurs just at the moment when the last hope for conception is already lost and desperate spouses even manage to take a foster child. When diligent attempts end, and a woman comes to terms with infertility, the psychological block is also removed – and a long-awaited and, at the same time, unexpected pregnancy occurs.
Subconscious fear of pregnancy
This group of causes of psychological infertility includes numerous scenarios and attitudes that prevent conception. In most cases, women do not even remember and cannot realize what their subconscious unwillingness to have children is connected with. This may be a story about death in childbirth heard in childhood or a film about childbirth that left a deep emotional imprint in the subconscious and the appearance of a hidden fear of childbirth. Or the often repeated statements from the older generation that children are a burden that interfere with career and personal life, phrases from the series “if it weren’t for children, then…” and frequent warnings that there is nothing worse than “bringing in a hem”. All this can affect a woman’s subconscious attitude towards pregnancy as something undesirable. In this case, the body resists its onset, “protecting” the woman from such undesirable consequences.
Stress can also affect fertility. The body perceives constant exposure to stressors as an unfavorable moment for conception and prevents the onset of pregnancy.
These and other psychological factors, which are individual and subjective in each case, can lead to the development of psychological infertility. Psychological attitudes, like stress, affect the nervous system, and through it the whole body, especially the endocrine system, changing the level of hormones.
Get rid of psychological infertility
If your gynecologist diagnosed you with infertility, but could not find any physiological reasons for this, do not lose hope. To cope with possible psychological blocks, it is worth getting rid of stress, relaxing, resting more, not getting hung up on this problem and, most importantly, not losing hope. And then your body will understand that you really want a child, are ready for it – and instead of interfering, it will help you get pregnant.
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30% of infertile women are diagnosed with infertility of unknown origin. In most cases, the inability to get pregnant is associated with psychological problems and doctors call this psychological infertility.
