*An estimated one out of every five couples in the United States suffers from infertility.
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*Comar (1992) reported that infertile women experience twice the level of depression when compared to their fertile counterparts.
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*Research has shown that the stress of infertility is comparable to that of cancer, HIV/AIDS and other devastating illnesses.
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*The depression often experienced when facing this challenge can in turn limit our medical success. Women with depression, when treated showed a 60 percent viable pregnancy rate within six months, contrasting with 24 percent when depression went untreated. (Journal of American Medical Women’s Association, 1999, vol.54)
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*A study, reported in the Reproductive Endocrinology (April 2000, vol. 73, issue 4), treated women who were in their second year of infertility and not yet depressed. The women who received group psychological interventions to stem the tide of depression caused by infertility had significantly increased viable pregnancies compared to those who did not receive preventative treatment for depression.
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