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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. I truly appreciate the thoughtful responses.
She has struggled with anxiety since early childhood (around age five). When she was younger it didn’t always present as constant worry and felt more manageable, but it intensified during her teenage years. At that time, therapy was helpful and gave her some solid coping tools. Over the past year, things had improved significantly. Recently, though, her anxiety has resurfaced and is now centered almost entirely on fears about infertility.

She isn’t always able to articulate exactly why she believes she may be infertile. At times she references possible hormonal or autoimmune issues, but the symptoms she describes are fairly nonspecific: fatigue, occasional late periods, appetite changes, and sleep disruption, etc. These are concerns that could be evaluated fairly simply with a blood test and could stem from a wide range of causes — many of which would have nothing to do with infertility. Despite that, she remains reluctant to pursue medical evaluation or testing.

She’s also hesitant to re-engage in anxiety treatment because she worries that addressing the anxiety will inevitably lead to medical work-ups, and she fears that testing could confirm her worst assumptions. From the outside, it appears that her current distress is being driven far more by anxiety than by any confirmed medical condition.

Most of the information hers seems to come from online articles and social media. She will also be home this summer, but not for more than a few weeks in total.[/quote]

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